Topsy
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Prospect Park Zoo in United States

The North American Regional Studbook lists this elephant with a Temporary Studbook Number, lacking "supporting documentation to validate their identity."

Topsy was born wild 1915 at Asia unspecified location.

Contradictory records:

Did Topsy, before joined RBBB Herd in 1919, stay at Ringling bros, or Barnum and Baileys?

Records about Topsy from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/

From Buckles Woodcocks blog:


William "Buckles" Woodcock

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
  
• Richard Chiger
• Ron Ellis, prev. head elephant keeper, Prospect Park Zoo

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Prospect Park Zoo
• More elephants from: United States
• More elephants that was born: 1915
• More elephants that died: 1942-07-00
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

Search more on the web for Topsy

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• elephant-news.com
• Asianelephant.net
• Billboard
• Buckles Blog
• circushistory.org
• Elephant_Commentator
• Elefanten-Fotolexikon.eu
• elefanten.wikia
• Google Internet search
• Google Books
• ShowMe Elephants
• ZooChat
• ZooChat