In the animated film, Dumbo's birth occurs in a quintessential kids' movie style, in that a stork delivers the baby elephant to its mother, Mrs. Jumbo (Verna Felton). Once the stork delivers the ...

It Was The First Disney Movie For Sterling Holloway Dumbo was the first Disney voice acting role for actor Sterling Holloway, who audiences hear as the Stork that delivers baby Dumbo to Mrs. Jumbo.

But, when doing research for her book, Warren Chadd discovered that the original myth actually describes the baby-snatching bird as a crane, not a stork. "It can be difficult to verify that one ...

A baby elephant collapsed from exhaustion while tied to its mother who was forced to carry tourists ... The two-year-old calf, named Dumbo by volunteers from campaign group called Moving Animals ...