† Lelabardi is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Gran Circo Union, in Mexico, .
Lelabardi was born wild .
In 1950, John North acquisitioned the "Baptiste Schreiber Acrobatic Elephants" after seeing the act in Europe. The presentation consisted of two female Asian elephants: Manula would strike the teeterboard, vaulting the performer onto the back of a waiting Lelabardi. During the winter of 1950/1951, Manula suddenly died during the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey tour of Havana, Cuba. With this ending the act, Schreiber returned to Europe and Lelabardi was sold to the Mills Brothers Circus (with Minnie) in 1951 under Hugo Schmitt. The Mills Brothers Circus presented a single elephant act for years until acquiring six more in 1950: Lena, Dixie, Bunny & India from the Polack Brothers Circus and Ringling Trilby & Wallace Jenny from the Ringling show. This was the first of Hugo Schmitts four season stint with the Mills Brothers. The following season they acqured two more Ringling elephants, Minnie and Lelabardi. The Herd had thinned by 1962-1963 with only Burma, Bunny, Lelabardi, Jennie & Una (Little Burma) remaining.
After return to U.S. "Lelabardi" was sold, along with several other elephants, to Mills Bros. Circus where she remained until that show closed in 1966 and the elephant Herd sold to Gran Circo Union in Mexico.
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