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At only four years of age, he was sold to the London Zoo in 1860. It was there that he met Matthew Scott, his keeper and one of the few friends he would ever know. In England, Jumbo lived alone in a tiny elephant stable and spent his days rides to children— sometimes as many as a dozen at a time.

Does anyone know of a pamphlet from Gottlieb Kreutzberg’s Gro β e Menagerie in which Jumbo appears before he was sold on to Paris?Barnham (Composer), George; MacDermott (Lyricist), G. H.; Symons (Composer), Ernest J. "Why Part With Jumbo, the Pet of the Zoo". Levy Sheet Music Collection. JScholarship . Retrieved 26 December 2013. Michael Scott and Jumbo. Photograph: Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University. Photograph: Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University.

A television program about Jumbo, Attenborough and the Giant Elephant, presented by the naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough, was transmitted on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017. [5] An international team of scientists examined the skeleton and found: Jumbo's molar teeth were malformed and out of line as a result of a long-term soft diet that did not wear his molar teeth down enough, obstructing the forward eruptive movement of the next molar. Abraham Bartlett, the Superintendent of the London Zoological Gardens, put the little elephant into the care of animal keeper Matthew "Scotty" Scott. Scotty had a talent for understanding and managing animals. Jumbo grew stronger and healthier under Scotty's care. Jumbo's pitiful refusal to leave London Zoo tugged at the nation's heartstrings" (Magazine illustration, 1882) Nicholls, Henry. “Jumbo the Elephant: the Afterlife.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 11 Nov. 2013, www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/11/jumbo-the-elephant-the-afterlife.

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WILDLIFE FUN: Keep your youngster entertained for hours while learning! Add to other animal toy sets allowing your kids to create and explore Remaining in the United Kingdom are statues and other memorabilia of Jumbo. Although the hide was destroyed by a major fire, Jumbo remains the mascot of Tufts, and representations of the elephant are featured prominently throughout the campus. In a report to the Zoological Society’s Council (relayed in The Times on 9 March 1882), Bartlett expressed his anxiety about what to do “in the event of illness or accident” to Matthew Scott, the only keeper that Jumbo would respond to. “In conclusion, I may ask that I should be provided with, and have at hand, the means of killing this animal, should such a necessity arise.”