Lelabardi
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Gran Circo Union in Mexico

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♀ Lelabardi  dead elephant

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Female ♀, unknown age
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:
Death reason: unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Gran Circo Union, in Mexico

Date of arrival

1966-00-00Gran Circo Union
from Mills Brothers Circus

1951-00-00Mills Brothers Circus
from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

1950-00-00Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Circus Schreiber

Record history
History of updates2010-05-12

Latest document update2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Lelabardi is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Gran Circo Union, in Mexico, .

Origin

Lelabardi was born wild .


Comments / pictures

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.

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

Buckles Woodcock 2010, http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2010/05/from-buckles-2.html

William "Buckles" Woodcock
Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Lelabardi, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Gran Circo Union in Mexico. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3035. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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