A big old elephant (which incidentally was killed when hit by a train) which is the mascot for Tufts Univesity. There's currently a statue of it at the school, and there used to the stuffed corpse of the original until it burned down in a fire (can you imagine the smell?) So anyway, all that's left now is the charred tail which they keep locked up in a safe somewhere. The elephant was a main attraction in P.T. Barnum's circus.