Famous water skiing elephant dies at Wild Adventures

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

A famous elephant who retired at Wild Adventures was euthanized Monday. Queenie spent the last 8 years of her life in retirement at the Valdosta theme park. Known as the World's only water skiing elephant, Queenie was one of the oldest Asian elephants in North America.

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So was the elephant pulled behind a barge?

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Liz Dane picked her out in a New York City pet store in 1953. She weighed 250 pounds and her family loaded her up in a Mercury to bring her back to New Hampshire.

Uhhhh..... ok.

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." --- Benjamin Franklin

You can lead an elephant to water, but you can't make it ski. Wait, I've got that mixed up with something else.

Anyone get a look at the reader comments? What possesses someone to respond to a story like this with the comment: : "GOOD! Stupid elephant."??

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The amusement park rises bold and stark..kids are huddled on the beach in a mist

http://support.gktw.org/site/TR/CoastingForKids/General?px=1248054&...fr_id=1372

A sense of humor? Something the responder to that comment lacks...

"GOOD" What a terrible thing to say about such a wonderful animal.

An anti-elephantite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp09lk_kZCU

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Wow, That's more impressive than I thought! Elephants have about the same life expectancy as humans in the wild. For a captive elephant it must have been taken care of well to live that long.

JoshuaTBell said:
about the same life expectancy as humans in the wild

Interesting, how long do humans in the wild live ;)

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As long as elephants in captivity.. I probably should've read that before I hit post ...

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