† Forepaughs Bolivar is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1908-07-21 at Philadelphia Zoo, in United States, .
Forepaughs Bolivar was born wild 1861 at Sri Lanka unspecified location.
1885 A lion killed its trainer and escaped its cage. It entered the elephant house, and attacked an elephant named Bolivar. The elephant crushed the lion to death. New York Times, December 10, 1885.
The second Bolivar was probably imported to America from Ceylon in the late 1860's. He had been with the Van Amburgh show for some years, before being sold to the Adam Forepaugh show, and in 1888 when he was delivered to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens he was believed to have been approx. 27 years old. The Forepaugh Bolivar died in 1908, and was believed to have been in its late 40's. Bolivar was considered so dangerous at the zoo, that he was never let out of his stall for the last 12 to 15 years of his life. Afterward, its Skeleton and mounted hide were for many years on exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The Forepaugh Bolivar was reported to have been, ten Feet at the shoulder and weighed 6 tonnes.
He had been with the Van Amburgh show for some years, before being sold to the Adam Forepaugh show, and in 1888 when he was delivered to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens he was believed to have been approx. 27 years old. The Forepaugh Bolivar died in 1908, and was believed to have been in its late 40's. Bolivar was considered so dangerous at the zoo, that he was never let out of his stall for the last 12 to 15 years of his life. Afterward, its Skeleton and mounted hide were for many years on exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The Forepaugh Bolivar was reported to have been, ten Feet at the shoulder and weighed 6 tonnes.
One of Philadelphia’s biggest 19th-century celebrities was an enormous male Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) named Bolivar. In the 1880s, Bolivar was the star attraction of Adam Forepaugh’s Circus, where he was billed as the “Largest & Heaviest Elephant in the World.” Unfortunately, he also had the reputation of being one of the meanest, and killed 2 keepers/trainers before arrival in Philadelphia Zoo. In 1888 Forepaugh decided that Bolivar was too dangerous for his circus and gave him to the Philadelphia Zoo. There Bolivar spent the last 18 years of his life with limited human contact. After his death in 1908, Bolivar’s remains were donated to the Academy, which displayed his Skeleton and mounted hide side by side for the next 10 years. Unfortunately, the skin deteriorated, but the entire Skeleton still resides in the basement within the Academy’s Mammalogy Collection.
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