† Neena is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1982-02-00 at Howling Wolf Lodge and Wild Animal Sanctuary, in United States, . Official death reason described as barnfire.
Neena was born wild .
1972: The article animal stunts tells about how Pat Derby rode her elephant, Neena, through the ceremonial opening ribbon at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in 1972 and later gave talks about her animals to zoo visitors. 1977-03: Wild animal trainer Pat derby, whose exotic menagerie was nudged out of the Santa Ynez Valley by people-pressure and into what was supposed to be a temporary home on the Nipomo Mesa, thinks she may have found a permanent home after all. Since March, when Ms. Derby was told to move her brood from a compound in the Santa Ynez Valley by Santa Barbara County officials, she has had the more than a dozen animals in quarters on the Mesa leased from Mr. and Mrs Earl Laursen. Source
Wild animal trainer Pat derby, whose exotic menagerie was nudged out of the Santa Ynez Valley by people-pressure and into what was supposed to be a temporary home on the Nipomo Mesa, thinks she may have found a permanent home after all. Since March, when Ms. Derby was told to move her brood from a compound in the Santa Ynez Valley by Santa Barbara County officials, she has had the more than a dozen animals in quarters on the Mesa leased from Mr. and Mrs Earl Laursen.
John Strong had a one ring Circus on the west coast for years. Known as the Big John Strong Show. His son still has a side show out of Texas. Nina is spelled Neena. There have been three of them with the one on C&B now being the last one. All were on the Big John Strong show thus the name was never changed and people didn't realize the elephant had changed. The second one retired in Northern California in 1970 and died in February 1982 at the Pat Derby farm in Leggett, California.
"Derby rarely mentions how in her days as a trainer and operator of a roadside zoo in Buellton , CA another elephant in her care died in a barn fire."
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