 His name, possibly from "Jambo", Swahili for "hello", became an epithet for anything of large size, such as Boeing's 747 Jumbo jet.He became aggressive in old age, and had to stop giving rides; he was sold to Phineas Barnum's circus, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, in 1882, where he was later crushed by a locomotive and killed.Winnipeg the Bear (or Winnie) was an American black bear given to the zoo in 1914 by a Canadian lieutenant, Harry Colebourn.