Jess
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Unknown in Unknown

Biography

☨ ♀ Jess

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Unknown, in Unknown

Date of arrival

	Unknown from Circus Carl Hagenbeck-Stellingen

1921-04-00	Circus Carl Hagenbeck-Stellingen from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

1921-04-00	Firma Carl Hagenbeck from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Record history
History of updates	2012-10-02: 2020-11-06: Updated as lost to trace 2021-11-25: Updated as dead 2021-11-25: Born in Asia

Latest document update	2021-11-25 05:28:43

† Jess is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Unknown, in Unknown, .

Origin

Jess was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

[...] to the Hagenbeck Zoo in April of 1921
William Buckles Woodcock, 2008

This performance really did make John Ringling
whistle, and our wonderfully trained eighteen polar bears, twelve
Bengal tigers and the exotic item with fourteen zebras and camels also
pleased him mightily. In due course he wrote us a handsome cheque,
in addition transferring to us four elephants out of his American herd,
which by steady purchasing in these years since we last met he had
built up to some ninety animals.
Animals Are My Life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck

The other three elephants imported back to Germany from USA were Barnum Queen, Veneda, and Mary.

Records about Jess from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
From Buckles Woodcocks blog:
Jess in Unknown

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Jess, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Unknown in Unknown. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 16 November 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=5425. (archived at the Wayback machine)