1989 animal deaths

thumb|The Wupper river, between Schwebebahn stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke thumb|Painting of Tuffi on a house wall in Wuppertal facing the Schwebebahn thumb|Bronze sculpture of Tuffi by Jörg Mazur Tuffi (born 1946, India – died in 1989, Paris, France) was a female Asian elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.