Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Table of contents 1 Historical elephants 2 Real things shaped like elephants 3 See also Historical elephants Abul-Abbas - Charlemagne's elephant Hanno - pet elephant of Pope Leo X Jumbo - P. T. Barnum's elephant Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince some 2000 years ago. The king and his elephant grew up together. Mary - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard. The first attempt failed, as the chain suspending her snapped, and she dropped to the ground, breaking a hip. She was resuspended, and died. Suros (the Syrian), mentioned as the bravest in Hannibal's army by Marcus Porcius Cato, the elder in his book Origines. Topsy - murderous elephant on Coney Island, electrocuted by Thomas Edison Tuffi - a young elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper on July 21, 1950 (she survived the fall) Real things shaped like elephants Lucy - an architectural folly in Margate, New Jersey See also Elephant History of elephants in Europe List of fictional elephants List of fictional animals Hatari Operation Dumbo Drop Joseph Merrick, who was called "the Elephant Man" for his affliction, which actually had nothing to do with elephants This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.