Historical elephants

• Hannibal's war elephants -- In 218 BC, Hannibal crossed the Alps with 37 elephants in the Second Punic War. Surus (the Syrian) is mentioned as the bravest elephant in the army by Marcus Porcius Cato, the elder in his book Origines.
• Annabelle the painting elephant was an Indian elephant won in a contest, donated to be Anchorage, Alaska's Alaskan Zoo's first animal in 1964.
• 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 Dutu Gemunu (or Duttagamini) in the 2nd century B.C. The king and his elephant grew up together. A Sri Lankan elephant born in 2000 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. is named after Kandula.
• Mamie - African elephant at the Knoxville Zoo who paints.
• 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.
• Renee - Toledo Zoo's master elephant artist received formal art training in 1995.
• Ruby - Famous Elephant artist, resided at the Phoenix Zoo, at least one painting was sold for $100,000.
• Surapa - Buffalo Zoo's abstract elephant artist.
• Topsy - elephant tortured by handlers on Coney Island, after it killed three of them she was put out of her misery 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)
• Tusko Billed as the meanest Elephant
• Lin Wang - a Burmese elephant that served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and later moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army. Lin Wang became a fond childhood memory among many Taiwanese.
• Kesavan - an Indian elephant, which was associated with the Guruvayur temple in Kerala,India. The elephant was known for its extreme devout behaviour.
• Ziggy - a 6.5 ton elephant that had been chained indoors for over 30 years in the Brookfield, Illinois zoo, and was unchained July 4, 1973.

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Jump to: navigation, search Hannibals feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants passed into European legend: a fresco detail, 1510, Capitoline Museum, Rome Hannibal Barca (from Punic, literally Baal is merciful to me, 247 BC – 182 BC) was a politician, statesman and military commander of ancient Carthage, best... Jump to: navigation, search The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Second Punic War was fought between Carthage and Rome from 218 to 202 BC. It was the second of three major wars fought between the Phoenician colony of Carthage, and the Roman Republic, then still confined to the Italian Peninsula. ... Marcus Porcius Cato (Latin: M·PORCIVS·M·F·CATO) (234 BC - 149 BC), Roman statesman, surnamed The Censor, Sapiens, Priscus, or Major (the Elder), to distinguish him from Cato the Younger (his great-grandson), was born at Tusculum. ... 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Real things shaped like elephants

• Lucy - an architectural folly in Margate, New Jersey

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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