Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Struppi Hanneford--Princess Tajana
From Pete Rosa:
I was with STRUPPI HANNEFORD today. She asked me to notify everyone that a car veered off U. S. 41 TAMIAMI TRAIL headed south towards Venice, FL. The car crossed over the median, continued across the large field and crashed through the back two Florida Rooms of the house and caught fire. The two back rooms are completely destroyed. With the exception of a few pieces, all of the CIRCUS MEMORABALIA and contents of the two rooms were destroyed. The main part of the home is OK except for smoke.
If you have any quality photos of Struppi, Tommy, Kay, Nellie or vintage photos of the riding Hannefords, Struppi would appreciate it if you would help to rebuild the HANNEFORD COLLECTION. In addition Struppi would appreciate it if anyone has quality video of her TAJANA aerial and cat acts. Struppi would also like to have a video of her 80th birthday held at the BIG E. She told us that it was one of the best days of her life.
All photos can be sent to Peter Rosa at rosapj@AOL.com or you can post to your facebook page. If you post to your FB page, please notify Peter that you have posted them and please put them in an album titled HANNEFORD. I will go to your photo area and copy from there. My facebook page can be found listed under PETER ROSA.
I will take all of the photos received and put them on a flash drive or print out the ones that are extremely noteworthy. I would like not to bog down Buckles Blog with all of these photos, unless Buckles states otherwise . Please limit all replies to quality photos.
IMPORTANT: If you have photos of the back room, please send immediately via my email address rosapj@AOL.com so Struppi can piece together all of the destroyed items for the insurance adjuster who is due to arrive on Monday, October 17th.
Videos and hard copies of photos may be sent to:
Peter Rosa
P.O. Box 1026
Osprey, FL 34229
Thank you in advance for your help.
Pete Rosa
Bred To Do A Job
escapada del toro-Bogarra
For folks who wring their hands over the fate of the poor ribeye, who only act's that way because he is "tortured", don't doubt or a moment that fighting bull's aren't bred rank and tough and don't need much provocation. No, they are surely not Elsie, the Borden Dairy Cow, but they are also not Einsteins.
"Cute and Carming" Gone Wrong!!!!
You have to wonder how lousy the other contestant's were in the Queen Contest below. The winner Shirley Lopez "augered in" twice and still won. My respect's to her, that's one tough broad.
Admittedly "cute and charming" has it's place and works well with staged publicity pictures, but often times real life situations require more skill then "looking good." The young lady below, sticks her horse pretty good and let's "cute and charming" fly out the window at a moment's notice. Getting the job done is more important sometimes then how good you looked doing it.
Courtesy of Josip Marcan
A few weeks ago I made this comment, in regards to the beautiful assistant that was showing a reporter Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza's magnificent horse's and how they were prepped for a bullfight: "It looks like Pablo has hired most of Dr. Josip Marcan's staff. :) I have to find out what employment agency they use." A few folks, who don't know the good Dr., misunderstood the comment, and a few even assumed I was "short handed" and offered assistance. These photo's from Josip, of last year's babies and this year's "baby," should clear up any misunderstanding. I have plenty of help, just not the good kind Josip and Pablo have, thank you.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Isaac Van Amburgh Paper--The Second GGW
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Excerpt from "The Circus In America:"
The introduction of wild animals to the circus dates from about 1819 when the French trainer Henri Martin (1793-1882) performing in Nuremburg, Germany entered a cage with a tiger. However, an American, Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1801-1865) was the first “modern” wild animal trainer who captured the public’s imagination and gained notoriety as a zoologist. The New York Mirror in July 7, 1838 said this about Van Amburgh.
“His fearless acts of placing his bare arm moist with blood, in the lion’s mouth and thrusting his head into the distended jaws of the tiger—the playful tenderness of the lion and the tiger toward the infant and the pet lamb, who are put into the same cage with them—are all attended with the most thrilling and dramatic interest.”
Later in July, Van Amburgh took his act to England and Europe for seven years. While in England, he performed before Queen Victoria. The Queen was so fascinated with him that she commissioned the artist Edwin Landseer to paint a portrait of him in the cage with his cats.
When Van Amburgh returned from Europe, his fame preceded him. A menagerie was named Van Amburgh and Company and his name continued was used in circus and menagerie titles until 1921.
Stuart Thayer in his Band Wagon article, “The keeper Will Enter The Cage: Early American Wild Animal Trainers,” November-December 1982 suggests that many writers credit Van Amburgh with being the first American trainer, however there may have been as many as nine men in the profession prior to his appearance. Thayer points out that these predecessors had a different style than that of Van Amburgh. These men, as Thayer mentions, were humane, as opposed to Van Amburgh’s style in the cage. Several sources note that Van Amburgh used a crowbar to apparently beat his cats into submission.
Although wild animal acts were popular, there were protestations against the use of wild animals in the circus—specifically cats elephants and bears. The objections, coming as early as the first decade of the twentieth century, were raised because of the suspected use of inhumane methods of training.
Henri Martin Paper--The First GGW
Henri Martin talking to the lion in the menagerie 1833
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Henri Martin (1793–1882) was a French lion tamer, who became a member of directory of the Rotterdam Zoo.
In 1819, a French circus performer named Henri Martin entered a cage with a tiger, shocking the audience when he emerged without a scratch. Martin, a retired horse trainer, soon taught the tiger to obey a series of simple commands. He eventually incorporated lions into his act as well, becoming the first famous lion tamer. Martin earned the big cats' trust by introducing himself to the cage little by little, over time.
A curious history, and one that sheds many gleams of light upon the character of beasts in the menagerie, is that of Henri Martin, the lion- tamer, who died, ninety years old, quietly at his home, " among his collections of butter- flies and his books of botany."
Popular Science - Sep 1882 - Google Books Result
Friday, October 14, 2011
Apenheul
Jambo, the main man, at Apenhuel. Does anyone know what another "Jambo" from Jersey was famous for?
Apenheul - Hom
Zoo News Digest: Rare proboscis monkeys in Apenheul!
The Ajanta Caves--How can we possibly limit the "Wonders of the World" to only 8?
Ajanta Caves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imagine the Brit's rode rough shod over these people for hundreds of years, in an attempt to give them culture, and to "civilize" them, when they were actually centuries beyond what the Queen had to offer!!!!
It is Difficult to Understand What Point This Practice is Proving? "training exercise" is a real stretch.
A five-month-old tiger cub looks at a rabbit in Jiufeng Forest Zoo in Wuhan, Hubei province January 23, 2011. The rabbit was put in the enclosure as a training exercise for the tiger to stimulate its hunting instinct, local media reported.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
FYI--American Breeders Cup Live On Line
El Shaklan(Shaker el Masri x Estopa) was one of my "favorite" Arabians of all time. He died in 2000, and while I never knew him personally, I have had the honor and pleasure of training some of grandchildren.
Link:Arabian Breeders World ...
Proboscis Monkey Update
Proboscis Monkey Bronx Zoo 1984
In 1984, I made a special trip to the Bronx Zoo to see their incredible Jungle World facility and their recently acquired Proboscis monkey troop. I didn't realize the Bronx no longer kept the Proboscis monkey until yesterday when Jim Alexander pointed it out. Thank you for the insight, Jim. I learn something everyday.
The first pair was sent to the San Deigo Zoo in 1956 and there were many importations into Europe and the United States after that. No zoo's were able to keep a viable population, and by 1997 only the Bronx kept them, until 2003 when they sent the last pair to the Singapore Zoo.
International Primate Protection League
Vol 27 No 1 April 1999
In 1975 the Basil Zoo in Switzerland had 3 Proboscis monkeys, and in 1997 it reported none. In 1997 Twycross Zoo in England reported 4 Proboscis monkeys, and in 1997 it reported none.
Captivity - Proboscis Monkey Project
Proboscis Monkeys Caught - Many Die - International Primate ...
Proboscis monkeys on Borneo: who “nose” what the future holds?
Proboscis Monkey - Basel Zoo - 1980's » Basel Zoo Gallery
Steve Romo was the long time Hoof Stock Curator at the Cincinnati Zoo, and aided Dr. Betsy Dresser during her ground breaking embryo transfer successes at Cincinnati. A great guy, 100% dedicated to his work. I have lost touch with him over the year unfortunately. Does anyone know what Steve is up to these day's?
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) - Comparative Placentation
Can proboscis monkeys be successfully maintained in captivity? A ...
In 1975, zoos in Basel, Berlin, Cologne, Colorado Springs, Dallas, ... none of these zoos have proboscis monkeys today.
From Thomas Bohner
Young cage act historian, Thomas Bohner is pissing down his pant leg in Belgium,:
Check my blog for a movie of the Clubb mixed act and lion act at Ringling.
Thomas
because he has located some footage of Jim Clubbs mixed act with John Illig and Jim Clubbs lion act with Larry Allen Dean on Ringling Bros. Thomas's nice blog is linked on "relevant stops" on the right, but for your convenience it is also posted here. Thomas has a great interest in cage acts, and spends a lot of time researching the subject, and I commend him for his efforts, even if he doesn't understand why I can't remember how many time's a day Tony shit in 1977, or how many times a day Targa had a drink of water in 1980!!!!!! :)
Thomas Bohners Cage Act History
European Method of Liberty Horse Training Compared to The American Method
A few weeks ago, on the below post I asked John Milton Herriott why many Europeans tended to waltz their horse's on the reverse or right side. He must not have seen the post, and I suggested it was because it was easier, and the horse's had a tendency to "want" to reverse to get back in the counter clock wise direction, or the left.
The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": Unknown Liberty Act
On May 17, 2011 HORSES FOR LIFE BLOG printed an interesting article titled "The Curious Imbalance of a Horses Mind," link to the blog: The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": New Horses For Life Blog
When a horse refuses to lunge, it’s usually the case that it won’t lunge to the right. When it spooks, it’s more likely to jump to the right and we all know about that scary plastic bag that is completely harmless when you ride past it in one direction, but it turns into a lion when you’re going the other way. Now researchers are starting to get to the bottom of the horse’s lop-sided view of the world.
We go to great lengths to achieve bodily balance and straightness in our horses, but most handling practices are decidedly one sided. We usually lead from the left, tack up from the left, and mount and dismount on the left, and rarely stop to consider why we do this, whether it’s a good idea, or, indeed, whose idea it was in the first place.
Recent research has shown that horses are actually hard wired to prefer having people on the left. The study, a combined project by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, The University of Regensburg in Germany and the Harmony Centre in Austria, compared conventionally trained horses (handled mainly from the left) with horses deliberately trained and handled on both sides. The researchers found that the horses of both groups preferred to put a human in their left eye.
Excerpt from the article “The Curious Imbalance of the Horse’s Mind”
More on this study at • VOLUME 49 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
Anyone who has spent any amount of time schooling a green horse will attest to the fact that you can ride past an object that is on the left side of the horse, with no reaction, then turn the horse and ride past the same object on the right side of the horse, and he will very likely jump out of his skin. There are exceptions, but for the most part they will react differently whether the object is on the left or right.
For years I have suggested to some of the best liberty trainers in America, that European circus horsemen discovered this "quirk" centuries ago, and have used it to their advantage. My "suggestion" has always been met with scoffing and claim's that "you are nut's." Many of them will even watch a European liberty act, and not realize the waltz has been done on the reverse. I don't think I am so "nut's" anymore.
Horses For Life--Volume 61
The thinking horseman's issue! An incredible juxtaposition of masters, trainers and equestrian literature, much of it available for the very first time in English. There are so many firsts. The first time we get to read the words in English, of Decarpentry on Baucher and His School, a new text by Xenephon Press that will challenge you at every level. Decarpentry continues with his consummate skill he is so famous for - of taking many different perspectives and views, and not trying to oversimplify or overglorify any one system. He looks for the successes and he looks for the flaws, he describes with great clarity and detail where things go right - and where things go wrong in this new translation of Baucher and His School. A must read for anyone who truly want to understand the work of this controversial master.
What book could possibly compete with such a new equestrian classic. Perhaps the only other text that is just as meaty is the brand new English translation of The French Tradition by Dom Diogo de Braganca again by Xenephon Press. The French Tradition is the tradition that encompasses many masters and many different concepts and perhaps never seen so clearly as in this text as different methods are presented side by side by someone who Nuno declared as one of his best students. This excerpt is a must read for all those who wish to expand their understanding of our rich equestrian history. How different methods can help us create the kind of success that we want with our horses.
The French Tradition is one of our two free articles this month. All registered users can read these articles for free. While some of our free articles will continue to be available to all of our readers others will only be available for a limited time only - and will be gone when our next issue comes out! So make sure that you don't miss this article that will make you think! Go read it today! As a subscriber feel free to let your friends who are not currently subscribed know that for a limited time only, they can read for free, read this incredible excerpt. All they have to do is register for free to read!
It is only fitting that in speaking of the French Tradition that we include the much awaited conclusion of the four-part series, “Conversations with a Master.” An incredible journey where we have joined Stephanie Millham as she shares with us her personal experiences as we join her paging through her notes from many clinics over the years. Sharing with us what Nuno considered the most important fundamentals of starting a green horse, how we should use the corners of the arena, what to do when we feel resistance in one hand, what exercise is like aspirin for horses, should you ask for the shoulder in by the hand or the leg and so much more. Endless references from one the masters of the last century much of it in his own words. Future articles will address in-depth advice on specific movements dealing with specific horse and rider problems.
New Scientific Research on How much rein tension our horses actually want.
We examine the Halt at the World Equestrian Games as per the rules of the FEI.
Jenny Rolfe: How to Breathe Harmony into Collection
and our continuing article series Anakalypsi: The Healer
and so much more.
If you have subscribed to our downloadable/video edition of Horses For LIFE this issue we continue the incredible story of "The Chosen One". Unique as the original experience was, join us as we follow along as strange events continue to happen and we were lucky enough to continue to catch it on film. Twice more unexpected bonds are instantly formed, both completely unexpected. The last perhaps the most unexpected of all. The true difficulty in the end is to try to begin to understand the meaning behind these unusual experiences. There is a deeper story behind all of these happenings. The beginning perhaps of understanding - a new lesson to be learned.
The power of video allows us to replay sequences again and again. It allows us to show movement - something that a still picture can never do, and in watching the movement allows us to understand the impact and the influence on the horse. This is why video is such an important aspect for us to continue to develop on Horses For LIFE. In this issue we examine and through observation explore the influence of the draw rein on the horse.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Crossbreeding species
Crossbreeding species may have made sense, and even had some justification in Hagenbecks day, but it sure didn't make sense by 1967.
Pretoria National Zoo 1967
Unknown Zoo
Does anyone know what these "growths" are on this caribou's antlers, and what causes them?
Vintage Zookeeping--Lions N Tigers N Everything
The life of a typical zookeeper and his animals written by Courtney Riley Cooper in 1924, and published by Little, Brown and Company.
Elephant House--Leipzig Zoo
2004
These two photo's were shot from almost the same angle 52 years apart, with the addition of a low retaining wall and different gate seen above.
1952
How much action do you suppose the brick scratching post seen above in 2007 and below in 1947 has seen over the years?
Zoo Leipzig has managed to improve and rebuilt much of the zoo, while still retaining much of the history and uniqueness of the original animal exhibits.
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