Mel Koontz
Posted By thecircusblog on May 1, 2012
Mel was the head trainer at Jungleland and World Jungle Compound for several years. I don’t want to confuse you but both names are the same place. Different partnerships in the business made for different names, but in the end it still belonged to Louis Goebel.
Now back to Mel, he was constantly training young lions, tigers, leopards, what have you. The motion picture and television industry was humming with work for wild animals. It was important to keep fresh well trained animals on hand, after a while the older animals could get rank and maybe nail an actor. That is one of the reasons why Mel doubled for so many movie stars.
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