Thursday, December 14, 2006

Smokey Jones Revived #5



"My guess is, that this is a picture of "Rajah" being turned over to Mr. Doyle at the Syracuse Zoo." Posted by Picasa

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think one of the elephants might be their male elephant indy. In the asian stud book they got indy from smokey in 85. Is this in 85?

Anonymous said...

The elephants are "Siri" "Indy" and "Romani" Romani came from Remo Christiani in 1984. Indy sired 4 calves with Romani. only 2 are still alive. Emmett which now resides at the Whipsnade Zoo and Kirina is still at the zoo in Syracuse.

Casey McCoy Cainan said...

Did the Indy elephant at one time belong to Neil Franzen, Wayne Franzens brother?

Anonymous said...

Did Smokey train "TARRA" for carol buckley? Way before she got holier then thou.

Buckles said...

Somebody did, I'm sure it wasn't her.
Anyone capable of training and maintaining an elephant would not have found it necessary to become a fund raiser.

Anonymous said...

i think targa and her calf went to african lion safari in canada on loan because of space

Anonymous said...

Mr. Doyle is the director in charge of the syracuse zoo now

Anonymous said...

I believe that Ms. Buckley was a part of the female animal handling contingent of the recently deceased Bucy Steele in her introduction to the Wonderful World of Elephants and then transferred at some period in time for the training of her elephant and of course Smokey's general consouling for a female foreign to the field, whatever that means. Maybe in her distant memoirs she will recognize them for posterity. I hope so.

Anonymous said...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?

Anonymous said...

Tarra was trained by Smokey, Tarra went to African Lion Safari to get bred with Buke, she has not calved to my knowledge, but I am pretty sure she aborted a calf.

Anonymous said...

Carol initially trained Tarra, poorly, then went to the first elephant school to have Smokey train her. Of course she did not maintain what she learned there. Tarra did abort a female baby. Carol has said that Tarra almost died too. (Carol has been known to exaggerate.)