Queenie (elephant)

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Queenie was a captive female Asian elephant born in Thailand in 1952. She was noted in the late 1950s and early 1960s for waterskiing for entertainment. Queenie was billed as “The World’s Only Water Skiing Elephant” after she replaced the world’s first water skiing elephant, Sunshine Sally. She was retired from the Circus Gatti in 2003 and sent to the Wild Adventures theme park in Valdosta, Georgia. In 2011, she was euthanized because of chronic health problems.