THE SUDAN AFRICAN ELEPHANT 135 
Zoological Park were caught on the Blue Nile, in 1905, soon 
after they were born. This species is specially distinguished 
by its enormous ears. It attains a shoulder height of 11 feet 
4 inches. The enormous world’s-best-record pair of tusks in 
PYGMY AFRICAN ELEPHANT. 
Adult male type. Specimen in the New York Zoological Park. 
the National Collection of Heads and Horns, New York 
Zoological Park, from this species, have a length on the curve 
of 11 feet 514 inches, and the pair weigh 292 pounds. Their 
greatest circumference is 18 inches, and in curves and sym- 
metry they are remarkably beautiful. 
“Jumbo” was the largest African elephant known in cap- 
tivity during historic times. His advertised “showman” 
