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Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt) in United States
Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt) Type dealer Owner Place
Avalon Region
California Country
United States Directors Key People Veterinarians Elephant department Head keepers Elephant keepers Record history History of updates 2010-09-26 Latest document update 2020-10-30 07:03:11 Random literature As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases
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Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt), in Avalon, United States
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Comments / pictures In August 1947, Catalina Wild Life Expeditions chartered a four-motor cargo plane to bring a shipment of wild animals and birds to the US, including baby elephants, tigers, leopards, gibbons, monkeys and birds, among other animals. An add was run advertising four to six year old baby Indian elephants for $3,750 a piece, as well as young Bengal tigers for $900 per animal. He stated that these animals were due to arrive in Los Angeles on August 20.Tom Packs Circus
at New Orleans, one to the Sacramento Zoo
and the sixth to the Henry Vilas Zoo
in Madison Wisconsin.Mac Macdonald
at Louis Goebel\'
s Animal Farm. The animals were six of the seven recently arrived from the Orient via the Catalina Wild Life Expeditions. They had been held by rebels in French Indo-China before American citizenship was proven and they proceeded to Hong Kong for export. Another shipment was planned by Rosefelt for April or May.Louis Goebel ,
elephant dealer in Thousand Oaks, California. One was delivered to the Moulin Rouge, a Sunset Boulevard night spot for training by Tony Gentry .
The other seven were to be delivered to zoos. The animals were transported aboard the American President Lines SS President Harding after capture in Cambodia and loaded in Saigon, Vietnam.References for records about Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt)
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan (2025). Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt), Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1844 . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources used for this article is among others: Ryan Easley, USA
"Calif. Firm Charters Plane to Ship Animals From Siam," The Billboard, 1947-08-16
"Large Wild Animal Shipment Reported En Route from Siam," The Billboard, 1948-05-15
"Modern Noah's Ark Docks at San Fran," The Billboard, 1948-11-27
"Polack Elephant School Watched by TV Program," The Billboard, 1953-01-24
"Goebel Expecting More Bulls, Start Breaking Polack 6," The Billboard, 1953-01-24
"Rosefelt Animal Cargo Includes Four Elephants," The Billboard, 1953-08-29
"Goebel Receives 8 Baby Elephants for Nitery, Zoos," The Billboard, 1954-05-15 Search more with Google for Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt) The link will automatically include Catalina Wild Life Expeditions (Noel Rosefelt) and open a new browser window.
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