Queenie (elephant)
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Queenie was an elephant who was used to give rides for children at Melbourne Zoo for 40 years. She was put down in 1944 after crushing a keeper, Wilfred Lawson, to death.
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- Queenie's last ride, The Age, August 10 2006.
- Queenie: One Elephant's Story, by Corinne Fenton and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (Black Dog Books) - a children's story.