Circus No Spin will be be sleeping for a couple of day's as we head into new port's of call, until new internet service can be found in a foreign land. Bear with us, and thank you for your loyalty and support.

Wade Burck

Roman Schmitt--Year and Location Unknown

Any Idea's Who's Elephants These Are? Smart? Chipperfield?

A British Overseas Airways Corporation flight from Bangkok upon its arrival at London Airport. Date 1952

Bertram Mills--1935

I wonder if these are the calves in the picture below, a year later?

Olympia Circus--1934

Baby elephants arrive from Burma at the London Docks from where they will be taken to Olympia to appear in a Christmas circus.

Marsha Hunt--Year Unknown

Marie, Bert and Sandy Pettis

Elephant Trainers Marie Pettis left and Flo McIntosh right Clyde Beatty Circus 1945(or so it say's on the back)

Bert and Sandy Pettis, 1970 Hubert Castle Circus

Shrine Circus--1961

Today's "new and modern" circus may want to come up with a different promotion other then an "elephant feast" in an effort to draw crowds. I think the "event" has attracted all the people it is going to over the years. I am not trying to tell an experience promoter how to run his business, but I bet if you could revive Tom Mix or Roy Rodgers and sign them as a special guest star, they wouldn't attract the numbers they did in the 1930's of 40's? But I may be wrong.......

Shrine Circus Elephant--1956

Does anyone recognize the head piece?

Clyde Beatty Circus--1940

Tom Mix Circus--1937

Clyde Beatty Circus--1935

I wonder what marked up this elephants jaw?

Gormon Bros.--1935

1909

I Wonder What Happened?

Barnum and Bailey--1904

Unknown Circus

Hagenbeck Wallace--1933

Hard to get excited over "herds" today consisting of a half dozen or so individuals.

Washington Park Zoo, Michigan City Indiana--1970

The data base list's 3 elephants relocated, one to Have Trunk Will Travel and one to Riddle's Sanctuary and one to North Carolina Zoo. There is no mention of an Asian Cuddles(I like Winky I or II better, geez!!) on the data base with the exception of a 37 year old free contact African female listed as coming from Longleat to Western Plains Zoo in 1977. I gain a certain pleasure thinking of Glenn Sullivan mahouting an elephant named "Cuddles" LOL

I just learned about an accrediting organization called Zoological Associations of America. Good idea for all far left liberals. The United States won't do what you want them to do, form your own country!!!!!

March 18, 2010

The Washington Park Zoo is proud to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Tiger by announcing the arrival of a new white tiger cub. On the weekend of January 23, Zoo Director Johnny Martinez, General Curator Elizabeth Emerick and Zoo Keeper Julia Bauer drove to Monocqua, Wisconsin to acquire a 10 day old female white tiger cub for the Washington Park Zoo.

The white cub, named Zusha, was made available through the friendship and generosity of Judy and Duane Domaszek, owners of Wildwood Wildlife Park, where Zusha was born January 14, 2010 in captivity.

Zusha is placed at the Washington Park Zoo on a display/breeding loan arrangement. This is a 5 year loan arrangement that can be renewed every five years if agreed on by both parties. The white tiger cub remains the property of Wildwood Wildlife Park during her stay in Michigan City.

Zusha is being raised and bottle fed by General Curator, Elizabeth Emerick. Zusha is fed every three hours, up to seven feedings each day. Zusha accompanies Elizabeth back and forth to work, resting in the Animal Clinic while Elizabeth performs her zoo duties. As Zusha grows older she will reside in the Lion House which is to be renovated in 2010. Zusha may have the opportunity to eventually be paired with a white gene carrying male.

Zusha was the only cub born in the litter. Her father, Shertan, is a white tiger, and her mother, Sheba, is an orange tiger. Bengal tigers are the only tiger species that are white gene carriers (heterozygotes). White tigers are not albinos; they have bright blue eyes and are referred to as sports.

White tigers are rare in the wild, but quite common in larger zoos. In the state of Indiana out of five major zoos, only South Bend and now Michigan City have a white tiger.

The first white tiger in captivity was Mohan who was born in India in 1951. A group of food gatherers noticed a white cub among orange litter mates and reported this to the Maharaja who sent them out to collect this tiger.

The first captive birth of white tigers was on October 30, 1958 in India when Mohan was bred to his orange daughter producing 1 male and 3 female all white cubs. One of these white females was named Mohini, and on December 5, 1960 German-American billionaire John Kluge purchased Mohini and donated her to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. as a gift to the children of America.

The Washington Park Zoo will open April 1 and hours will be from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily, with entrance gates closing at 4:00 p.m.

"Unseemly" has been further defined as, "setting the facts straight"

Roger Smith said...

Recently, discussion arose about the animals in this act. I had long heard Hoover bought Andre's Serengeti Lions, but a rumor circulated they were too small for Africans and were pumas. This photo settles that.

04 June, 2011 17:30

Chic Silber said...

Are these females or neutered males

04 June, 2011 18:32

Circus Photos said...

They are neutered females, but he did also had two males and a tiger.
He was working to add.

04 June, 2011 20:23

Sent yesterday at 8:27 PM:

I find it incredulous in this day and age of worldwide media that someone could mistake lioness's for pumas!!!! Even if you live in a cave and have only seen one segment of National Geographic or Animal Planet you should have a pretty good indication of what the two species look like. Read one, only one book on felines and you should get a real good idea. They are as different as night and day, as are a neutered male and a female.

Circus Photos, it's more likely they were "spayed females." Unless the lioness's had nut's and they were removed. If that was the case, I suppose you would be correct and they were indeed "neutered females." Are you sure it was a tiger? With out seeing it or photo documentation, it may have been a leopard......Sheesh!!!

Wade Burck

For anonymous who wondered at a comment being censored for "racist" by Show biz Dave, above is one example, of many of what doesn't make it on the "history channel" For folks who don't recall this blog was originally conceived by three individuals who were disgruntled at not being able to state their position on the "history channel" Go back in the "manure pile to the very first day's and you will understand that. They contacted me knowing I was the most censored on that particular blog and we formed circus no spin for the posting of those censored comments. After a short time the 3 individuals wanted out, because they were getting "negative" feedback from a lot of the industry, and their names were removed as "contributors." My son's, Adam and Eric asked to be added as "contributors," as they were concerned for Pop's standing out there all alone taking shots. LOL God bless them and I love them so much.

For the record anyone who has comment's "censored" that they feel are valid, send them on to circus no spin and we will post them here. Censorship is evil and vile and not becoming of a free world unless you are trying to create a world that isn't real.