Owner of elephants that got stranded has faced scrutiny
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A circus that owns four elephants that were briefly stranded this week along an Oklahoma roadway also had a pachyderm escape its enclosure and roam free through a Wisconsin residential neighborhood last summer, federal records show.
A female Carson & Barnes Circus elephant named Kelly got loose in July at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report.
Circus World spokesman Dave Saloutos told The Associated Press at the time that another female elephant, Isla, used her trunk to disengage a restraint.