Editing Jumbo (section)

==Examination of Jumbo's skeleton==
[[File:Jumbo size comparison.jpg|thumb|Skeleton of Jumbo compared to a human]]
A television program about Jumbo, ''Attenborough and the Giant Elephant'', presented by the naturalist and broadcaster [[David Attenborough]], was transmitted on [[BBC One]] in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/50/attenborough-and-the-giant-elephant | title=Attenborough And The Giant Elephant | work=Media Centre | publisher=[[BBC]] | location=UK | access-date=10 December 2017 }}</ref> An international team of scientists examined the skeleton and found:
* Jumbo's molar teeth were malformed and out of line as a result of a long-term soft diet that did not wear his molar teeth down enough, obstructing the forward eruptive movement of the next molar.
* Jumbo's nightly rages were probably caused by toothache, rather than [[musth]], as his keeper thought at the time.
* A ''post mortem'' photograph of Jumbo shows skin abrasions consistent with an illustration produced just after his death of the freight train hitting him on a hip from behind as he was being led across to his traveling carriage, and said that the likeliest cause of death was internal bleeding from his injuries.
* Examination of Jumbo's limb bones showed overgrown tendon attachment areas consistent with a long-term history of being overloaded at his work.
* Jumbo was still growing at the time of his death, as is normal for African male elephants of his age, and might eventually have attained the size claimed by Barnum.

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