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Tag Archives: Jumbo the Elephant
1882: Jumbo
An anecdote from Matthew Scott’s biography of Jumbo the Elephant (1885): Once when I was riding him around in the Zoological Gardens, in London, sitting on his neck, with about a dozen children on a panier-saddle across his broad back, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Africa, Animals, Children, Elephants, Great Britain, Jumbo the Elephant, Mammals, Matthew Scott, Sudan, Zoos
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