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Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii.On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith.
An elephant escaped from a traveling circus and wandered through the streets of Butte, Montana, on Tuesday, stopping traffic, knocking over a fence, and defecating in someone’s yard.
A circus elephant went for a stroll through the streets of Butte, Montana, this week, where she was captured on video by residents.. Viola, the 58-year-old Asian elephant, was in the parking lot ...
A circus elephant ran loose in the streets of Butte, Montana, on April 16, NBC Montana reported. Surveillance video from Town Pump gas station shows the elephant roaming the streets as it’s ...
Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", [1] was a five-ton Asian elephant [2] who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus.After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
Allen Campbell (December 30, 1956 – August 20, 1994) was an American zookeeper and elephant trainer and handler in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida before moving to work in the Baton Rouge Zoo in the mid-1970s as the elephant keeper and trainer.
The circus was in town, and an elephant escaped, stopping traffic as he roamed down the street. Where he was headed is unknown, but he didn't seem to realize that he was in the commuters' way!
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [1] [2] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good" or ...