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USDA confiscates circus animals

2010-02-11 - Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.

Thursday morning the U. S. Department of Agriculture took an African elephant from a home in Miami County, Indiana . The USDA took tigers and lions from the same residence a few days ago. The USDA claims the animals' living conditions weren't following the law, but the animals' owner, Julius von Uhl, 72, said he wasn't given proper notice of the violations. von Uhl grew up with the circus in Hungary. When he was 12, von Uhl started learning how to work with circus animals, and by age 15, he was ...


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Glimpse an ancient beast. Science Central will house a facsimile of Fred the Mastodon

2007-01-13 - Fort Wayne, United States. Kevin Leininger

A famous Fort Wayne native is coming home after nine years. Or maybe that should be 13,000 years. What’s left of Fred the Mastodon, who died in western Allen County millennia ago and was rediscovered while digging for peat moss in 1998, will take up permanent residence at Science Central sometime this spring. The museum is even offering the public a chance to sponsor one of his 275 bones – or a reasonable facsimile thereof. A rib is just $50, but a 9-foot tusk will fetch $2,000 and the massi...


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Manager at Tarzan Zerbini Circus: Fatal trampling by elephant was an accident

2005-02-01 - FORT WAYNE, Indiana, United States. Associated Press

The manager of a circus where an elephant trampled its trainer to death while being loaded into a truck said he believed the man's death was an accident. "We don't believe from the behavior of the animals it was a premeditated, aggressive killing," Larry Solheim, general manager of the Tarzan Zerbini Circus, said today. The trainer, Pierre Spenle, 40, of Texas, died Monday after he was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital with critical chest injuries. It was not clear whether Spenle fell or whether an...


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Elephant crushes circus Shrine worker

2005-01-31 - Fort Wayne, IN, United States.

A day at the circus turned tragic Monday in Fort Wayne, after an elephant crushed a circus worker. The accident happened Monday afternoon in the Memorial Coliseum parking lot. Workers for the Shrine Circus were loading the elephants onto a trailer, when Pierre Spenle, 40, fell beneath the elephants when a security bar he was leaning on gave way, and he got crushed by the elephants.


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