How to oil an elephant #1

When elephants were imported directly from Asia to the Animal Dealers, Zoos or Circuses they were invariably infested with a variety of parasites both internally and externally. Most of the internal parasites died right away from the change of soil they would consume while grazing. The most common parasites still today are "Round Worms" that are easily disposed of but many were lost from "Liver Flukes" much harder to detect. They all would have lice or I should say ticks, that usually congregated mostly behind the ears or in the arm pits and would spread among other elephants like a rumor. I was at Circus World when Gee Gee called and said that her elephants were constantly scratching and had these little red bugs, no doubt acquired while co-mingling with other elephants while on tour. I invited her to bring them up to Circus World and we could take care of this in short order. In this picture the first elephant has come out of the truck and Gee Gee had her lie down on her side so we could start slopping on the neatsfoot oil from the container at right.