Two Tails Ranch elephants in United States

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Two Tails Ranch

Type	private
Founded	1984
Address	18655 NE 81st. St.
Zip-code	32696
Place	Williston
District	Levy County
State	Florida
Country	United States
Website	Website
Related persons
Owner	1984-1994: Ted Svertesky


Directors	1994: Patricia Zerbini

Zoological department
Elephant department
Elephant management	Free Contact, since


Elephant Trainer	-: Jennifer Thomas

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-17:

Latest document update	2025-03-17 15:47:01
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Description

Two Tails Ranch elephants, located at 18655 NE 81st. St., in Williston, Florida, United States , was founded in 1984

Two Tails Ranch elephants elephants are managed in Free Contact .

Living elephants

At the private owner Two Tails Ranch lives 5 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

♀ Asha born 1983
♀ Marie born 1973
♀ Patty
♀ Shell born 1966
♀ Tika

Taxidermy specimens

Two Tails Ranch has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

Tommy Accession nr: . Received: ♂ Tommy
Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
* Born 1944 at Nagarhole National Park † Dead 2002-12-21 at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Retirement Farm
Death: euthanised Death reason:
Body, bone or dental material: ,

Comments / picturesThe 20-acre farm was started and operated by Ted Svertesky and the present owner Patricia Zerbini. Ted kept temporarily nine Ringling elephants at the Venice Winter Quarters until moving to his new property at Williston in 1985.

Svertesky and Zerbini ran the farm until 1994 when Ted Svertesky was killed in a train accident.

Zerbini keep all her elephants there, and lease out to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus (RBBB)

Ringlings breeding farm, Williston

RBBB has leased parts of the farm to house their elephants, as breeding center between 1994 and 1996, when they built the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation.

"While visiting Ringling’s elephant breeding compound in Williston, Florida, worldfamous elephant trainer Axel Gautier was stomped to death by an elephant."Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1994

Ringlings retirement center, Williston

Since 1996 Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus lease a small portion of it to house Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Retirement Farm.

References for records about Two Tails Ranch

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2026). Two Tails Ranch, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=872. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Patricia Zerbini

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