Tyke (elephant)
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Tyke 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 S. Blaisdell Center, she kille
Tyke running through the streets, minutes before being shot to death
Topsy (elephant)
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Topsy was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903. Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon t
Tyke (elephant)
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1899 poster for the combined Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus featuring acrobats' "Terrific flights over ponderous elephants"
Thomas A. Edison had no involvement with the death of Topsy.