Animal trainers

[Shadow]

(07-05-2019, 09:14 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Shadow :

About #171: I don't like the animal circus, especially with big cats. Nevertheless I'm agree with you when you told that a good mixed turn (lions and tigers, males and females) requires a perfect knowledge of every animal's personality, and, perhaps, under this condition the animals could be not so unhappy to work together.

Inside this video, "Masai" isn't the only one big lion. His fellow "King" is a big one too. These two big males are perhaps used to "stabilize the group", i.e. the other felids. They don't act very much, usually the last, a kind of "quiet strength", and that that is perhaps the most remarkable if we consider the number of females, lionesses and tigresses, around them. Lionesses and tigers (males and females included) are more active.



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Alexander lacey in one of his final tours with the Ringling Bros.

Situation has changed a lot from past and it can be seen as a quite complex matter. Captive animals are after all in current conditions also representing hope in fight against total extinction of some species. But that is one thing, other thing is then it, that despite of it what you or I or some others think we do have a lot of big cats in captivity and it is not going to change anytime soon at least. So knowing, that there won´t be quick changes in overall situation and when discussing about animal trainers I like to pay attention to things where also quick changes are possible. And what should be important to people who say, that they love animals. One thing is how these animals are treated in different places.

Not just looking videos and interviews about trainers and when not finding any lion-tiger fights, skipping and thinking "boring, I want to see dead lions and tigers in fights, not well treated enjoying their lives". Or "Oh, this guy likes both, tigers and lions, not a good trainer for me, I want to find someone who says, that lion or tiger is superior"... When knowing it, that there has been troubles in past, it would be actually interesting to learn more, that how things have been developed to better for instance what comes to Lacey and his family. I haven´t seen so far any headlines about animal fights during his performances or outside shows.

Naturally differences between animals are always interesting, but really so should be conditions of captive animals and how they are treated and trained. Reply