It looks like there are some nice behaviors in this fine act. Just my opinion, but I think it is a waste to do a pyramid as we see below, with an even number of animals, with a center animal, either in the front or on the top. It makes for an unbalanced/uneven looking formation. An odd number of animals gives you that option, but possibly one animal was out when these pictures were taken.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Circus Richter
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Wade G. Burck
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There are 4 lionesses in the cage - maybe one was in heat and didn't feel like working?
I see a plank walk, a sit up, a pyramid of sorts, a jump over and 4 cats leaning on a plank. What "nice behaviours" have I missed that have elicited such high praise from you for a LION act??? LOL
Steve,
But if you look at the pyramid picture below, you will note the two end animals sitting on different height seats. It gives that unbalance look. Steve, I didn't say "great", "unbelievable", "incredible". I said "nice", which covers the "basic's." The "basic's" become "nice" when the animals appear to be in "great" shape. I will bet you dollar's to donut's, that the way the animals are leaning on the plank indicate that they jump over it, and laydown, and possibly sit up. It was a behavior his grandfather wanted to put in the act he trained for Hawthorn but never got it finished, only with a stretch instead of leaning. It would have looked sharp with 9 animals stretching then all jumping over the plank into a laydown, situp, oblique. But it never happened.
Wade
Wade - my point was that these animals don't have stripes ...... they are LIONS!!! lol
It is not like you to give such fulsome praise to some still photos of some standard behaviours performed by animals with no stripes!
Are you well?
Steve,
It was a comment on a "whole." Nice looking young man, decent wardrobe, decent looking props and animals. Lions will usually drag an act down, but in this case it "all" looked better then most of what else is available today.
Wade
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