Jumbo is the wonderful, colourful biography of the greatest elephant ever known, Jumbo (from whom we get our word). Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, rescued and taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo, where he became the favourite of the British populace, from Queen Victoria to the young Winston Churchill - until, talent-spotted by the American circus-owner P. T. Barnum, and despite public outcry and Royal protestations, he was taken across the Atlantic to New York. There ...
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Jumbo is the wonderful, colourful biography of the greatest elephant ever known, Jumbo (from whom we get our word). Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, rescued and taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo, where he became the favourite of the British populace, from Queen Victoria to the young Winston Churchill - until, talent-spotted by the American circus-owner P. T. Barnum, and despite public outcry and Royal protestations, he was taken across the Atlantic to New York. There, having once more conquered public hearts and now a beast of giant proportions, among other exploits he befriended a smaller elephant, Tom Thumb - in saving whose life he was to meet a tragic end (involving a railway line and a fast - for 1885 - train...) The book not only unravels the story, but also looks at Jumbo from a zoologist's point of view. Why was he thought to be a runt? What helped or hindered him in adapting to unfamiliar surroundings from one hemisphere of the globe to the other? How was he likely to have reacted to the overwhelming public attention - and to isolation from his natural habitat? The author draws illuminatingly on modern knowledge of elephant behaviour and biology to shed light on the mysteries surrounding Jumbo's life.
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