Robert “Smokey” Jones

| January 14, 2010

Working with the zoo’s African elephants are left to right. Animal keeper Jim Whittle, Waymon Walker, Robert “Smokey” Jones, Kari Jones, and John Kitchen.

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Eloise and Koa

| April 7, 2009

Eloise Berchtold was the owner and trainer of the African elephant name Koa.  I must say that she did a  magnificent job. I first met her when she had her Bear and her cat acts in the mid 1960’s. It indeed was a strong arena act and the polar bears were worked on lunge lines. It was a very different […]

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