"Elephant Man" #1 (From Joey Ratliff)

E-man, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Good evening Buckles, Now that the weather is cooling and keeping the hurricanes away, I can get back to important things, blogging! I ordered this book a couple of months ago and thought you and the blog folks might be interested. It is about a fellow named Chris Gallucci and the elephant Timbo at the Shambala preserve in California. Animal Planet fans may remember a documentary on him called "Tusk and Tattoos" that was shown about 3 years ago. Anyway, the story goes that Mr. Gallucci was something of a bad seed in his youth and ended up on the set of the movie "Roar" as a welder. When the filming finished all the animals, including bull elephant Timbo, stayed put and the Shambala Preserve was started by Tippi Hedren. Mr. Gallucci stayed on to take care of the elephant, for the next 30 years. Pretty good story about finding somethig to make life matter. Buckles, do you know anything about this bull, Timbo, prior to him being at Shambala? I know there was also an African cow named Kura there for a while but she is not mentioned in the book. Thanks. Joey "Never heard of "Timbo" but in 1975 I visited the Vargas Show in Orlando and Wally Ross had an African female in the herd named "Koora" and he gave me this info. KOORA 1966-69 Africa USA- Saugus, Calif. 1970-71 Africa USA- Fillmore, Calif. 1972 MarineWorld- Redwood City, Calif. 1973-77 Circus Vargas (No further record) Hugo Schmitt once asked if he could look into "Anna May's" eyes, I had seen him do this before. I think he was waiting for me to ask if he saw anything but I didn't bite." Buckles