Woodcocks’s elephant act elephants in United States
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Woodcocks’s elephant act Type private Place
Ruskin, Florida Country
United States Website
Website Related persons Owner 1963-2001: William "Buckles" Woodcock Unspecified persons Zoological department Animal trainers Elephant department Elephant Trainer -2001: Ben Williams Record history History of updates 2025-03-15: Latest document update 2025-03-15 07:28:25
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Woodcocks’s elephant act elephants, private
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in Ruskin, Florida, United States
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Casualties 1 casualties
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1982-09-13: visitor Mary Herman fatal attack by Anna May . swatted the woman with her trunk, killing her
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† 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.
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Comments / pictures Son 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 References for records about Woodcocks’s elephant act
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan (2026). Woodcocks’s elephant act, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=336 . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources used for this article is among others:
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