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List of 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 the Elephant[?] - 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.
- Tuffi[?] - a young elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper[?] on July 21, 1950 (she survived the fall)