Gary Hill

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Gary Hill
Profession	zoo elephant trainer
Personal details
Born	? in United States

Residence
Country	United States

Locations
Title	assistant elephant trainer 1978-1978
Location	at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus (Blue Unit) in United States

Title	elephant head-keeper 1974-1978
Location	at Six Flags Wild Safari (Six Flags Great Adventure) in United States

Title	assistant elephant trainer 1974-1974
Location	at Circus World (Polk City) in United States

Title	elephant keeper 1974-1974
Location	at Chipperfield organisation station in Uganda

Title	assistant elephant trainer 1973-1973
Location	at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus (Blue Unit) in United States

Title	elephant keeper-1973
Location	at Wond Worls elephants in United States

Title	elephant keeper
Location	at Sanford Central Florida Zoological Park in United States

Biography details

Gary Hill , zoo elephant trainer in United States

Hill was born * ? in United States .

Records about Gary Hill from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog

Gary Hill with Konti/Bonnie in Dallas.

This is Gary Hill delivering "Hugo" to me at the Circus World Park in 1974, I forget his original name but as soon as he touched the ground he became "Hugo Schmitt".

William "Buckles" Woodcock Buckles Blog

Records about Gary Hill from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog

GH at Circus World with the Asian bull Reed from Rex Williams.

Records about Gary Hill from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog

Sobik

When I left the Blue Show, I went back to Fla and had the opportunity to work with him at the Sanford Zoo. He was beating everyone up at the zoo. They had him in a pen with a hippo, no wonder he was pissed off! Buckles originally broke him at CW in 74 or 75? He was fat and lazy and no one there had a clue how to get around him. He was chained on a long run where he could get shade and water and they just through the feed over the fence, then while he ate they quickly cleaned up until he would chase them out.
Gary Hill

Gary Hill is mentioned on 2 location pagesSanford Central Florida Zoological Park, Six Flags Wild Safari (Six Flags Great Adventure),

Gary Hill is mentioned on 9 elephant record pagesBonnie, Gloria, Hugo, Kenya (Kenga), Major, Ranchipur, Tusko, unknown, Vance (Doc),

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant trainer Gary Hill in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 14 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1687. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Gary Hill
William Buckles Woodcock, Ruskin, U.S.A.

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