is Jumbo Asian or African??

Colleges & Universities Tufts University
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<p>I’m deeply confused… the cartoons and descriptions say African but Tufts’ gigantic statue clearly shows an Asian elephant…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cummingsfoundation.org/images/tufts_university_affiliation.jpg[/url]”>http://www.cummingsfoundation.org/images/tufts_university_affiliation.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>:0?</p>

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<p>Jumbo (1861 – September 15, 1885) was a large African bush elephant, born 1861 in French Sudan, 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.</p>

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<p>From the wikipedia article on Jumbo (which is where worrywart’s post is copied from)</p>

<p>After the fire consumed Jumbo’s body, “A statue of an elephant, dubbed “Jumbo,” was purchased from an amusement park and placed on the Tufts campus after the fire. Jumbo became the university’s mascot, and remains such to this day.”</p>

<p>The statue may not accurately portray the original elephant himself.</p>

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<p>Jumbo was stuffed in a way that made him look even taller than he was in life. Here’s a link to a Tufts reference with a picture:</p>

<p>[Tufts</a> Journal: Tufts at 150: Elephant tales](<a href=“http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/archive/2001/october/tufts150/index.shtml]Tufts”>Tufts Journal: Tufts at 150: Elephant tales)</p>