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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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2 comments:
These are Grevy zebras. Tough customers for sure. I believe this is the first photo I've ever seen of Grevys in harness.
Richard,
"Tough customers" is an understatement for these brutes. The last place I would want to be is in the seat of a wagon that a team of Grevys are trying to outrun. On first seeing this picture I was surprised at the choice of a couple of miniature donkeys for the wheel team. In a run away, I would suspect they would get their hide drug off. You have to wonder what the "swing" team was? In this case it looks like it was a single animal given the single whiffletree in front, taunt as indicated by the trace tug chains. It seems to be a fairly heavy load to have the animals in breast straps instead of collars. I wonder if this "team" was a circus deal, and there is an elephant in the front? The wagon does seem to be a farm vehicle of some sort, but most winter quarters were in rural area's. Any thoughts?
Wade
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