Sunday, November 13, 2005

Bert Pettus #1

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We were on the Castle show two seasons together. Bert told me stories of his days as one of the Barnett brothers.

Anonymous said...

Was this the Danny the one that was later donated to the Pittsburgh zoo and then had to be destroyed there,due to the zoo(supposedly) could not afford to feed it?

Buckles said...

Yes it is.

Anonymous said...

Was Danny a elephant from Sumatra?
He looks a lot like the "Outlaw" elephant Billy Sunday.
I always wondered if the
AL G. Barnes elephant"Barny" was also a Sumatran elephant.
They are the smallest sub-species of Elephas maximus, all kind of looked short and stocky.

Buckles said...

Looking at old photos I always thought that "Billy Sunday" and "Barney" were the two ugliest elephants I ever saw dispite having nice brace of ivory.
They both resembled an American bison.