Yes, none, in this zoo, that threatened my life. I did have one in Kansas City, working with the African elephants, as I was taking them out of the barn one day onto the veldt, a sparrow or something flew over and scared Casey, the bull elephant. And he turned his head and hit Lady the cow elephant, and she unintentionally smashed me against the wall and knocked the breath out of me, and I just dropped to the ground. And had I not had a good rapport with those elephants, I probably would have been stomped. But they’ve just stood there nervously wondering what’s happening and finally, I got my breath and said, it’s okay, it’s okay. Then they relaxed and okay. But accidents involving animals, serious accidents involving animals in Topeka, we did have a long-time experienced tiger keeper who was shifting the tigers, and I still don’t exactly know what happened, but one of ’em reached out and scratched him on the arm. And it was not life-threatening, but I thought it was serious.
