When I was first hired here, they were building caging and they
needed fencing. They needed props. They needed everything and anything
that a movie set would need. But this movie set happened to have lions
and tigers on it, so therefore, they needed a lot of fence panels. They
needed a welder. And so, I was a welder. And so, I'm looking at these
two elephants constantly chained up, and I know what it's like to be
chained up, and I don't like it.
But this was a very, very long time ago and the original people that
worked with the elephants came from a completely different background,
and that's how they were taught to deal with these particular animals. I
went to [founder] Tippi [Hedren] and her then husband, and said, “Look,
I want to work with your elephants. Why? Because I'm going to turn them
loose.” And Tippi and her then husband looked at me like, “Dude, you
cannot turn that elephant loose. That's the largest African bull in the
United States.”And I just told her, “Just give me a chance, give me a
chance at this and just watch. Watch and see what happens.” She came out
and said, “OK, all right, we'll give you that chance.”
The first thing that I did when I was given the chance to work with
the elephants was, I wanted to take them off their chains. But I also
knew that you're dealing with the largest animal that walks the face of
the earth. You let an elephant get out of control, you have a problem
that you cannot control. And so, I started making their chain longer,
and then I would take them off the chain and put food 500 feet in front
of them, have another chain set up and then they'll go to the food and
then chain them up. Now, I just got 500 feet. So, the next day, I want a
thousand. Next day, I went 2000. Pretty soon, you've gotten a mile with
no chain. The trick is to get the animal to bond with you without the
animal know he’s bonding with you.
((CHRIS GALLUCCI, Director, The ROAR Foundation Shambala
Preserve))And so, it's this whole evolution of trust that you end up
creating with an animal while the animal doesn't know it. Like I said,
the animal was following me. As the years go by, no more chains and I'm
following them. And so, just constantly learning, learning, learning,
learning, figuring out the animal.
Every day, when I would take them out of the barn, they used to stick
their nose in the big dumpster. One day, I ran out of the barn, jumped
in the dumpster and they didn't know I was in there. They both stuck
their noses in the dumpster and I just came popping out. And so then,
they both look behind them. It's like, ‘this dude’s everywhere.’ I just
got you. I got exactly where I want you, and so that's how I
successfully became the Elephant Man.
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