Saturday, May 31, 2008

Taronga Zoo #6


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like Gary Miller. He had a really nic fast paced 3 act with the Point Defiance zoo Africans years ago. He left there to become Disney's elephant manager. When he got the job at Taronga, they sent him to one of the camps in Thailand to work with the mahouts and pick three elephants that he wanted for Taronga and a few more for the other Aussie zoos. I was working at Ringling's CEC at the time and got to talk with about it. Sounded like a good deal.

Wade G. Burck said...

Joey,
Wasn't there some issues with some elephants that came into Taronga last year?
Wade Burck

Anonymous said...

Wade, I beleive it was the standard AR protest hoo-haa, "Babies dragged from their mothers and tied with ropes, etc." That's about all I know. Maybe some of the Austrailian contributors to the blog could help with that.

Anonymous said...

wade yes taronga had a big battle
with animal fanatics and our rspca
trying to stop the elephants arriving in australia would have cost taronga zoo a fortune fighting these people who know nothing about elephants
Robert Perry
Australia

Anonymous said...

To Robert Perry,
What do you mean by these people(?) knowing anything about elephants? I don't think they know anything about anything, except how to raise money and hood-wink the public.
Bob Kitto

Anonymous said...

bob kitto
correct we used to say grow your own dope bury an animal libber or
animal fanatic.
Robert Perry
Australia
ps for a lot of people who know nothing a lot of people in high places listen to them and that is the sad part