Woodcocks’s elephant act elephants in United States


Woodcocks’s elephant act
Typeprivate
Owner 1963-2001: William "Buckles" Woodcock
Place Ruskin, Florida
Country United States
Website Website
Directors
Key People -: Barbara Woodcock (animal trainer)
Veterinarians
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants		 -2001: Ben Williams
(elephant trainer)
Elephant keepers
Record history
History of updates2025-03-15:
Latest document update2025-03-15 07:28:25
Description

Woodcocks’s elephant act elephants, in Ruskin, Florida, United States .

Casualties

1 casualties
  1. 1982-09-13: visitor Mary Herman fatal attack by Anna May. swatted the woman with her trunk, killing her † Mary Herman Died 1982-09-13, near a Wisconsin Rapids restaurant. Mary Herman, 30, a friend of elephant trainer Ben Williams, was found dead of a "crushing-type injury," on Sept. 13 in a bushy area near a Wisconsin Rapids restaurant.

Comments / picturesSon to Colonel William H. Woodcock

"From the time we left the Ringling Show until retirement we owned eight elephants other than "Anna May". This is what the Herd looked like in 1993 at the Catskill Game Farm "Anna May". "Peggy", "Jenny", "Ned" and "Amy"."
To Karen G, Buckles Web Log, 02/03/06

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Woodcocks’s elephant act, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=336. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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