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

Biography

☨ ♀ Peggy

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1941-11-14
Death reason:	disease: poison, penumonia
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1939-00-00	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

1933-00-00	Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus from Sells-Floto Circus

1930-00-00	Sells-Floto Circus from Grants Farm

1928-00-00	Grants Farm from Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Record history
History of updates	2023-04-29

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

† Peggy is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1941-11-14 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as poison, penumonia.

Origin

Peggy was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Died fall of 1941 in Atlanta , Ga. due to poisoning.
She almost recovered, and was sent back to the show, but died on Penuominia (Chang Reynolds)

Records about Peggy from Bob Cline

PEGGY
Female Asian 1927 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1928 - bought by August Busch
1928 to 1929 - Busch Gardens in St. Louis, MO.
1930 to 1932 - Sells-Floto Circus
1933 to 1938 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939 to 1941 - RBBB
Died 1941-in Atlanta poisoning

Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Peggy, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3846. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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

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