BW Consultants: Ilana Cobban

Ilana Cobban is the elephant care manager at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. She started her zoo keeping career in 2002 working with a variety of animals including elephants, giraffe, okapi and mountain tapir to name a few. Her work now primarily focuses on elephants and rhinos. For the last 15 years Ilana has been mentoring new elephant caregivers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo helping them develop the skills needed to build trusting and lasting relationships with the elephants in their care.

Ilana Cobban