Barnes Trilby
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Mills Brothers Circus in United States

☨ ♀ Barnes Trilby
Identification
Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 50 years old
Body height:	2.56 meter, 8.4 feet
Origin
Born:	* 1902 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1952-07-01
Death reason:	unknown: in Davenport, Iowa
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Mills Brothers Circus, in United States
Date of arrival
1949-00-00	Mills Brothers Circus from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1938-00-00	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from Al G Barnes-Sells Floto Circus
1937-00-00	Al G Barnes-Sells Floto Circus from Al G. Barnes Circus
1933-00-00	Al G. Barnes Circus from Sells-Floto Circus
1906-00-00	Sells-Floto Circus from Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show
1905-00-00	Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show 1905-00-00 from Luna Park
1904-00-00	Luna Park from Thompson & Dundee
1904-00-00	Thompson & Dundee from Firma Carl Hagenbeck
Record history
History of updates	2010-10-01: more contradictory records 2012-04-17: added prev locations and importer, removed Floto as alt name. 2012-10-02: height 2018-05-16: prev location Thompson & Dundee, Firma Hagenbeck
Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Barnes Trilby is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1952-07-01 at Mills Brothers Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as in Davenport, Iowa.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• The Ringling Elephants 1888-1967, Bandwagon
  
• Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2009/11/trilby-tessie.html
• Buckles Woodcock
• https://classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1964Mar.htm
  
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/12/chris-zeitz-2.html
  
  

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