This is about as entertaining as slamming your hand in a car door or walking into a ball hitch. Date and location unknown.
Courtesy of Wayne Jackson
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
"Exotic" Act?
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Wade G. Burck
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Looks something like the hippo Zusha on Ringling about 15 years ago. Single hippo did a few tricks and some macaques jumped around on her back.
Jim,
With the tree's casting lumen's behind, it is hard to tell, but I suspect it is someplace in Asia. My thought's on "exotic's" such as hippo's, giraffe, rhino's, etc. is that if that is all you are going to do with them, don't do anything at all.
Wade
I don't know, Wade. I'd rather see a giraffe walkaround to fill time than yet ANOTHER clown number. The public may not realize what it takes to get a giraffe to enter the ring on a lunge, or a rhino without a lunge, but it makes for interesting novelty anyway, if you look at the totality of the whole program. Chipperfields used to have a dwarf clown who did a mad dash around the ring with a flock of pelicans chasing him. It only took a minute, but it was a startling surprise and little bits like that add variety. So, a monkey doing back flips on a hippo is more interesting to look at than a monkey doing backflips on the ground anyway. If you've got a hippo, or giraffe, or rhino, why not?
Ian
Ian,
What!!!! Who the hell are you? Untie the real Ian, and let him speak. LOL
I am not fond of pet's. My belief, and they are mine personally, is that you are justified in having a wild animal IF you are going to do something with it, either train it or breed it properly. I don't consider walking on a leash and learning not to poop on the floor as training. That's just good behavior, like a foal learning to lead without climbing your back or running the other way. Hippo's are much more impressive in a large group swimming exhibit with viewing windows, and "vistas'" as a giraffe doesn't look respectful next to a tractor trailer.
I can spend hour's touching, grooming a finely bred horse removed from his stall with a foot of pine shavings, but I can't stand touching a dirty dink, with cockleburrs and burdocks filling his mane and tail, brought in from an over grazed pasture once a week. I like being a part of a magnificent animal's learning process, which is why I am fond of elephants, tigers, Arabian horses, birds of prey, and fine bird dogs.
Wade
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