Lucy Melo

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Lucy Melo

Profession	zoo elephant keeper
Personal details
Born	?

Residence
Country	Australia
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Locations
Title	senior elephant keeper 2010-
Location	at Sydney Zoo in Australia

Title	elephant keeper-2009
Location	at Disneys Animal Kingdom in United States

Title	elephant keeper
Location	at Houston Zoo in United States

Title	elephant keeper
Location	at Albuquerque Biological Park in United States

Biography details

Lucy Melo , zoo elephant keeper in Australia

Melo was born * ? .

Affiliation with 1 elephants

1: Pathi Harn (attacked)

Casualties

1 casualties

2012-10-19: elephant keeper Lucy Melo attacked by Pathi Harn. pinned her against a bollard at the same time as making her way out of the stall, after Ms Melo was engaging Pathi Harn in a training session in the barn, realizing a behavioural change in Pathi Harn. Lucy Melo Survived. An ambulance spokeswoman said "She had critical injuries, multiple injuries. The patient was unconscious and had stopped breathing," Melo was brought to Royal North Shore Hospital, she made and was released from hospital after 12 days. Sydney Zoo transferred elephants to Protected Contact

After Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Zoology from the University of Toronto, she then started working at Houston Zoo, Rio Grande Zoo and Disneys Animal Kingdom before starting at Taronga Zoo nine years ago.

Lucy Melo is mentioned on 1 elephant record pagesPathi Harn,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant keeper Lucy Melo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 21 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=3308. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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