Originally shared by Dirk Puehl - 21 comments
15 September 1885, #onthisday, 130 years ago, Jumbo, the awe- and synonym-inspiring Elephant, died at the age of about 24 during a train accident while on tour with P.T. Barnum’s show in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.


Elephants have considerable cognitive abilities, play, learn, grief, use tools, solve problems, show compassion and are self-aware far beyond the point of being recognised as sentient. Allegedly, elephants are even able to cry, one of the few qualities of Jumbo the Children’s Friend and King of the Elephants that are not recorded, even though he had every reason to shed quite a lot of tears during his life and death as “giant pet of two nations”. But read more on:

d his keeper Matthew “Scotty“ Scott on a Circus poster from 1882. http://wunderkammertales.blogspot.de/2015/09/natures-great-masterpiece-elephant.html

Depicted below is Jumbo an

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