Dan Koehl
I grew up close to the Zoo Skansen in Stockholm and spend a lot of time there during childhood.
After selling my first budgerigars to a Zoo-shop, I started to work there in afternoons rather than doing my home work.
As teenager I worked as sheepherd in Stockholm, and after working there and in Zoo-shops and farms I attended Zookeepers line at high-school.
I wanted to work with exotic animals. The same autumn, 17 years old, I went to Sri Lanka four months, studying working elephants, during the practice.
Now, as animal keeper since 38 years, I have worked from scorpions, aquarium fishes, birds and dogs, to sealions, hippos, giraffes and elephants.
35 years as elephant keeper later, I am one of the few elephant consultants in europe, with experience from more than 70 elephants in 10 countries, from Sweden and Finland in the north, to Southafrica in the south.
When I started using Internet in 1995, I didnt find any information about elephants, so I made my first website. It has changed over the years, and is to a certain amount developed by its visitors, since I had a lot of questions the first years, and a lot of feedback. It is full with information and databases, you find it at http://www.elephant.se. Programming websites is my second profession, I focus on search engine optimization, and dynamic websites connected to MySQL databases.
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