Old Pitt (Petit)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Cole Brothers Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Old Pitt (Petit)

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†1943-08-06
Death reason:	accident: killed by lightning
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Cole Brothers Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1942-00-00	Cole Brothers Circus from John Robinson Circus

	John Robinson Circus from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen)

	Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen) from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Record history
History of updates	2022-04-07

Latest document update	2022-04-14 13:09:28
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† Old Pitt (Petit) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1943-08-06 at Cole Brothers Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as killed by lightning.

Origin

Old Pitt (Petit) was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Died in Dillon, Montana: a severe storm approached. Out of nowhere, a bolt of lightning zapped down and struck Pitt, knocking her over and killing her instantly.

Records about Old Pitt (Petit) from Bob Cline

PITT
Female Asian 1911 -Dan Robinson Circus
1912 to 1921 - John Robinson Circus
1922 to 1941 - Robinson Military Elephant Act
1938 - Robbins Bros. Circus
1941 to 1943 - Cole Bros. Circus
Died Aug.7, 1943 in Dillion, MT. - struck by lightning
Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Records about Old Pitt (Petit) from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
The Robinson Show bought four punks from the Hagenbeck Zoo "Tommy", "Tony", "Clara" and "Petite" (Pitt).
They were trained by Tim Buckley. After the show was sold the last three were retained along with old "Tillie".
Buckles Woodcock, Buckles Weblog 15 oct 2005

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Old Pitt (Petit), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Cole Brothers Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 21 November 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2334. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/oldpitt.html">Roadsideamerica</a>
<a href="http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/john-robinson-circus-parade-4.html">Buckles Woodcock, WebLog</a>

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