Years ago Oscar Christiani had an elephant with white/creme colored eyes like the elephant pictured here. Her name was either Emma or Carrie, I believe. I worked with that herd and Larry French(a good man) years ago on the Texas Dates. I recall her being normal colored with the exception that she had very white pigmented ears. Does Bobby Cline or anybody else remember her?
Courtesy of Wayne Jackson
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Female White Elephants in Rangoon, Burma
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Wade G. Burck
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i rember her if i am not mistaken she is in Georgia if she still around . and also rember Larry very well good man .
last statement was written by Cleanraul .
The elephant's name was Emma. She and the remaining Cristiani herd are at Wild Adventure in Valdosta, GA. I think Emma was younger than the rest of the group.
Jim,
Thanks for jarring my old memory. Carrie was the short legged one, who's trunk laid in a big curl on the ground. Her short legs made it a lot of trunk to keep up. A good group of elephants, very compatible, and well trained, who had been in the Christiani family for years.
Wade
Jim A.,
Do you have any contacts at Wild Adventure? I believe Emma is gone now. Shirley is the only survivor of the Cristiani act. She is there with Queenie. Beatty-Cole's Bessie passed away a couple years ago but I never found a date for my records. Likewise, I have no recorded date for Emma either. So as far as I know, there are just the two elephants left there now.
Bob
Shirley is the only elephant left of the Cristiani herd and is still going strong at Wild Adventures in GA. Emma, the white eyed elephant passed away 2003 from stomach cancer. She was the youngest of the herd. Babe had passed the year before. Carrie passed away in Alabama. All were wonderful elephants and a complete part of our family. We retired them all after we felt it was too much for Carrie to travel with her bad hips and didn't want to separate them. They all lived their last years in happy retirement. Shirley of course still enjoying the life of leasure but I'm sure missing what once was as we all do.
Bob,
I only know of Wild Adventure from what I see and hear and passing by on trips to Missouri. Thanks to anonymous (Carin?) for the update.
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