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A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
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6 comments:
Wade - what a neat pose . All young animals and NO little fences.
Steve,
I wondered if anyone would note that they very young animals. Maybe no fences, but there are "floor boards" for the lions. In the early 90's a "house trainer" at Hawthorn sent out an act complete with floor boards for a few animals. That's should help with the what is qualified answer.
Wade
Yep - the floorboards make Chipperfield's little squares look positively tiny! But I liked this pose because of the mix of species and I liked the absence of the little fences that Court used to use and remember ... this was 100 years ago!
Hey - weren't YOU Hawthorn's house trainer in the early 90s? LOL
Steve,
No. I left in 1990. Hawthorn never had a house trainer until after that. It wasn't a word in the American Dictionary before that.
Wade
The man in the cage is Ehrich Mehrmann, Hagenbeck's brother-in-law. The picture was taken at the Chicago exhibition.
This is likely the first mixed group ever presented in the history.
Raffaele,
Even as far back as the 1900 Hagenbecks realized that raising and mixing the species was no big deal. Yet the "more difficultness" of a mixed act is still propagated in to 20 century to unsuspecting and gullible circus patrons.
Wade
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