Saturday, December 30, 2006

Ringling Circus World 1974-75 #1



We did a lot of training those first few years, replacing old elephants with younger ones. Having been placed on the Endangered List, baby elephants could no longer be imported and the only alternatives were males already in this country.

In this case, Rex Williams had just dropped off this little guy that I named "Charlie" after Charles Ringling not Charly Baumann as some people claimed.
I am told that today, he is the principal breeding male elephant at the Ringling Stud Farm. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 12/30/2006 06:30:00 AM

3 comments:

Ryan Easley said...

Buckles,
Can you tell us when it was in 1974 you acquired Charlie? From where did Rex acquire him and for how long did he have the male?

08 July, 2011 22:36
Buckles said...

"Charlie" was delivered Nov. 22, 1974 completing a swap during which he received one of the Ringling elephants that he renamed "Gyp".

08 July, 2011 22:52
Larry Louree said...

How old was "charlie" in this picture?

It's interesting that with all of the development at the old CW site, it still looks a lot now like it does in the picture.

09 July, 2011 11:34

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