swing of her massive foot hurled his body into the crowd." Execution The animal then trampled the dying form of Eldridge as if seeking a murderous triumph, then with a sudden. and with the full force of her beastly fury is said to have sunk her giant tusks entirely through his body. Ī contemporary newspaper account, from the Johnson City Staff, said that Mary "collided its trunk vice-like about body, lifted him 10 feet (3.0 m) in the air, then dashed him with fury to the ground. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and stepped on his head, crushing it. ![]() Coleman, who claimed to be a witness, is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. There have been several accounts of his death. Although unqualified, Eldridge led the elephant parade, riding atop Mary's back Mary was the star of the show, walking at the front. He was killed by Mary in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on the following evening. On September 11, 1916, a homeless man named Red Eldridge, who landed a job as a transient hotel clerk, was hired as an elephant keeper by the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a keeper on his second day at work, in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1916, she was hanged in nearby Erwin. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as " Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. The authenticity of this photo has been called into question. Please tell me about elephants missing! 251 captive elephants that killed human keepers and trainers, or visitors to zoos, circuses and camps.A photograph, purportedly of Mary's execution in 1916. The list is a new function, and its incomplete. Salim photographed by killing keeper Gunter Lenz in Berlin Zoo, 1963. Murderous Mary hanged in 1916 by the neck hanged from a railroad derrick in Erin city, USA.Ĥ-paws Topsy executed in 1903 by electrocution at Luna park, USA, an event filmed by the Thomas Edison.īlack Diamond after being shot in Kenedy, Texas, 1929. Most elephants cope very well with the captive situation, and most people enjoy the interaction between the trainer and the elephants. Especially wild caught bulls are often considered by professionals more safe to work with, than captive born bulls. It should also be stressed, that captive born Zoo elephants, contrary to what many laymen believe, becomes agressive in a higher degree, than wild-born elephants. If protected contact would be minimized to the most dangerous animals, the rest of the herd would often benefit from the classical free-contact. Management transfering to protected contact as a result, put many well behaving elephants in situation that has no scientific reason. Its tragical when it happends, but its also tragical, that such accidents are used politically by people with an agenda. The accidents also should be compared to human deaths accociated to dogs, horses, cattle and other captive animals. ![]() It has to be cleared though, that even if one elephant has killed people, theres often 4 or more elephants in the facility who never did, and never attacked a human, therefore statistically, it should be considered an individual problem, rater than a management problem, why each single case should be viewed as an isolated topic, and not a general manegemant topic. The numbers of elephants that have killed humans is less than stated than by many rumors, and animal right activists often argue that when elephants kill people its because of bad management.
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