Luna
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Luna

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1962
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1954-00-00	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Record history
History of updates	2023-04-29

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Luna is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1962 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Luna was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Trained by Louis Reed and Smokey Jones in the winter 1954.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Luna, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3828. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/06/to-henry-penndorf.html

Litterature about Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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