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2 comments:
The black cat on the upper right is one of the two black jaguars. The other black is a leopard. You can see how much heavier the jaguar is with its head more block-like.
It was a real achieivement for Court to work these black jaguars in the mixed act. They have a reputation for being agressive toward the others.
Richard,
All due respect to Court and other "back in the day" trainers, there are many, many, intangibles that have become antiquated in a more knowledgeable world: He was a good trainer for his time. In fact, far more enterprising and innovative than anybody else at that time, but he was purely a businessman. If somebody saw one of his mixed groups (18-22 animals) and wanted it for next year, he would immediately train one on demand. Most of the good trainers in Europe came from his school or Hagenbeck’s, but Hagenbeck was losing momentum by then. The training methods for both were the same. However, many trainers lost their life or were seriously injured with Court. He didn’t take a bad animal out immediately because of the difficulties in replacing it, particularly in the mixed groups. In later years he always had duplicate animals travelling with the acts in case one of them got killed. They alternated between the afternoon and the evening shows, as did the trainers.
Wade
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