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Jumbo The Elephant (1861 - September 15, 1885) was a very large African bush elephant, born 1861 in French Suan, imported to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to P. T. Barnum, for the circus. The giant elephant's name has spawned the common word "jumbo" as meaning large in size. Jumbo has long been the official mascot of Tufts University.

Trivia about jumbo

  • It's been applied to a 747 jet, a Barnum elephant & eggs
  • In the 1880s, circus owner Adam Forepaugh tried to compete with P.T. Barnum, who had this elephant as an attraction
  • P.T. Barnum purchased this pachyderm, billed as the world's largest, from the London zoo in 1882
  • Doris' biggest co-star wasn't Cary Grant or Rock Hudson but this title elephant
  • This very small place in Ohio was named after P.T. Barnum's very big elephant
  • Grover was known to some as "Uncle" this, a size for jets & elephants
  • The remains of this P.T. Barnum elephant were given to Tufts University
  • Ashes of this elephant, P.T. Barnum's most famous, are kept in a Peter Pan peanut butter jar at Tufts Univ.
  • Term for a mortgage loan that's too big to be guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac

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