From Chris Berry #1

Ringling Barnum PIGMY ELEPHANTS (one-sheet upright c.1936), originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Ringling Barnum PIGMY ELEPHANTS one-sheet upright c.1936) The discussion of African elephants "Safari" (a/k/a "Jumbo II") and "Kenya" reminds me of the African elephants that were billed as "Pigmy Elephants" with Ringling-Barnum in the late 1930s. Described by press agent Roland Butler as "The only family of African pygmy elephants that ever set foot on this continent. Not babies, but full-grown middle-sized tuskers, the most curious proboscidean creatures ever captured." When asked sometime later what happened to them, Butler replied "The damn things grew up!"