List of Individual Elephants - A - F

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  • Annabelle, known for her painting skills; an Indian elephant won in a contest, donated to be Anchorage, Alaska's Alaskan Zoo's first animal in 1964
  • Ayed, female elephant favoured by Tipoo Sultan the Tiger of Mysore. She was killed in 1799: the British cut her heels to make her kneel even though suspected to be pregnant but the dignity of the elephant was such that she died on foot.
  • Abul-Abbas - Charlemagne's elephant
  • Baby Roger, purchased at age two by the children of Providence for the Roger Williams Park Zoo in 1893. in 1901, a Long Island filmmaker made a short about him, "A Visit to Baby Roger". He was much loved until he grew older and became irritable and was sold to a circus in 1915. He toured Europe and was killed in Georgia after attacking his keeper and killing a female elephant who was stealing his hay.
  • Bandoola, an elephant in the Burma Campaign of WWII; he was named after the Burmese general Maha Bandula and incidents in his life are described in the books Elephant Bill and Bandoola by Lt. Col. J. H. Williams (Williams concludes that he had been killed by his mahout Po Toke)
  • Balarama (elephant) is the lead elephant of the world famous Mysore Dasara procession and carries the statue of the goddess Chamundeshwari on the Golden Howdah
  • Batyr (1970–93), the "talking elephant" of Karaganda Zoo in Kazakhstan
  • Betty the Learned Elephant, the third elephant and first trained elephant in the United States. After her owner claimed that even bullets could not pierce her hide, she was shot by local men in Chepachet, Rhode Island on May 25, 1826.
  • Black Diamond, Indian elephant with Al G. Barnes Circus; killed four people and was subsequently shot in 1929
  • Castor and Pollux, served up to the wealthy citizens of Paris during the siege in 1870
  • Chunee, an elephant in the menagerie at Exeter Exchange; executed by soldiers from Somerset House in March 1826
  • the Cremona elephant, given to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II by the Sultan of Egypt in 1229
  • Fanny the elephant, a former circus elephant that resided in Slater Park Zoo in Pawtucket, Rhode Island from 1958–93. She was moved to the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch sanctuary in 1993 because the city closed the zoo exhibits due to financial crises. She lived the last ten years of her life at the sanctuary and died in 2003. A statue to her memory stands in Slater Park.

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