Thursday, January 12, 2006

Four good elephant tricks/William Philadelphia


This was Hugo Schmitt's mentor at the Hagenbeck Tierpark in Germany.

For the benefit of the viewers recently added I thought I would back up a bit and show a few stunts that impressed me.

Posted by Buckles at 1/12/2006 06:36:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So that's Philadelphia ? That's quite a photo - I recall you rehersing a Large Silvertipped Brown Bear( " Chloe ", no how'dah only a post with handlebars - so to speak ! ) riding an African Elephant(?), with stainless steel caps on his ivory ? and BIG ears !!! A very impressive look parading through " Opening " and a feat in itself I believe - A - ?

12 January, 2006 19:05
Anonymous said...

Did Carl Hagenbeck really have a elephant trainers school in Hamburg
back around the turn of the Century?
Who taught William Philadelphia?
Mahouts from India?
I read where all the records of the Hagenbeck gardens tierpark were destroyed by bombs during WWII.

18 January, 2006 17:21

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