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Tusko Tusko is a popular name given to elephants in captivity. Several notable elephants have been given this moniker. ==The Meanest Elephant==
Formerly known as "Ned," this Tusko was a giant circus elephant captured at age 6 in Siam (now Thailand).〔(HistoryLink Tusko the elephant rampages through Sedro-Woolley on May 15, 1922 )〕 He stood just five feet high when he was unloaded from a sailing ship at New York harbor in 1898. By 1922 he was touted as "The Meanest Elephant"〔http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/lotus_isle.html Image of "Ten-ton, 12-foot Tusko the Elephant with his owner, Al Painter"〕 as well as "the largest elephant ever in captivity", though at 10-feet-2-inches tall (3.1 meters), he was seven inches shorter than Jumbo. Nonetheless, Tusko was a ton heavier than Jumbo and the largest elephant in North America since Jumbo. The tusks which earned him his name were about seven feet long (213 centimeters). No other circus wanted Tusko and he spent some time in an exhibition road show, accompanied by his keeper and lifelong devotee, young George "Slim" Lewis. Tusko ended his days in the Seattle Zoo, dying of a blood clot on June 10, 1933.
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