Old school and new school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0hoibl5E5o

Here are two different generations basically doing the same thing. One in a movie from years ago, and one in a "scientific" zoological setting today.
My observations, both tigers were young. The one below assuredly raised in captivity lacked the killing skills of an adult, although obviously having the inclination to catch prey. He "played" with it, not really knowing what to do, much as a domestic cat will play with a mouse it has caught/killed. The tiger in the video above given the date of the movie, was quite possibly a wild caught animal, either as a cub, or a young adult. He still had a fear/flee behavior with is genetically hard wired into a wild animal. That gave the aggressive boar, obviously an adult an advantage for a while as his fear/flee mechanism turned to aggression due to maturity , but the confinement negated any chance of escaping, and eventually predator power had the advantage. Also the boar in the video below had no idea what was coming, and the boar in the video was faced with it instantly giving you two different reactions. As I tell my son, and other young trainers, "you have to react instantly, you can not think, you have to know what you are going to do. As you are moving into step 1, step 2 needs to instantly be formulated, and as you move into step 2, you already know what 3 will be, as well as 4,5,6,7, etc." These are things that gentleman, like Jim Clubb have learned, and understand after years and years of study and observation. They are the "intangibles/mechanics" that somebody who is not familiar with the craft of wild animal training, can not began to comprehend, and they are the things that are hard to teach. Raise your hand, point your toe, and say hup is the easy part to teach somebody. If you study and understand the intangibles/mechanics your skills as a trainer will increase dramatically. And I am pleased to have a man of Jim Clubbs caliber visit, as I am pleased with the visits from Col. Herriott, and Madame Col. Olds Rossi, and others. These are people every young "trainer" can learn something from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gei7Kt4QeU