Gold Dust (elephant)

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Gold Dust (c. 1873 – November 4, 1898) was a male Asian elephant at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., from April 30, 1891, until his death. He was lent to the zoo as a companion for Dunk by the Adam Forepaugh Circus. In 1884, he allegedly disemboweled a man in Worcester, Massachusetts. On November 3, 1898, Gold Dust collapsed while walking to Rock Creek with Dunk and died the next morning. A postmortem found inflamed intestines and teeth in bad shape that could not close properly.