Jumbo
The elephant wasn’t named “Jumbo” due to its extraordinary size. It’s the other way round. The big jets, shrimp and oversized drinks are named after the elephant.
Jumbo was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan in 1860. He was enormous … 3.5m (11 feet, six inches) tall and weighing in at almost 6 tonnes. His name is most likely a combination of two Swahili words: jambo, meaning “hello” and jumbe meaning “chief”. The infant Jumbo was capt…