Whirling Brothers Circus in New Zealand

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Whirling Brothers Circus
Type	circus
Founded	1969
Last elephant left	2007
Country	New Zealand
Related persons
Owner	-: Tony Ratcliffe

Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2007-11-23xx

Latest document update	2020-10-30 07:03:11

Description

Whirling Brothers Circus, New Zealand , was founded in 1969. The last elephant left in 2007..

Comments / picturesCircus was founded by Mr Tony Ratcliffe who has spent a lifetime in the circus industry, working with Weber Bros and Bullens Bros.

He started Whirling Bros in 1969, naming it after the circus featured in the 1959 movie The Big.

Whirling Bros has travelled all over New Zealand and even been taken abroad to the Pacific Islands and New Caledonia.

References for records about Whirling Brothers Circus

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Koehl, Dan (2026). Whirling Brothers Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=556. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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