Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

[Pckts]

(11-03-2014, 12:17 PM)'Spalea' Wrote: Very interesting, Pckts, your account about the "personality" of the big cat species. I would have never thought that jaguars could be so difficult to train, I believed this was the case of the leopard. As for the tigers, yes they are the most representative big cat in the circus and by far. And perhaps the most playful too.
As for the lions, after having seen numerous videos of Salmoni and Richardson (youtube), I am a little bit surprised. Of course there were not captive lions (not trained in an area circus but living in open air). I would have thought when a male lion admits the trainer as being the dominant "male" of the group it will be easier to train. Now you tell the male lion always tests the trainer when suddendly "it doesn't see through him" no longer.

 

 

From all of the accounts I have read and seen, the only thing that is certain is this...
All cats are individuals, no one rule can apply only generic ideas.
Lions may be more social, tigers may be more cunning, leopards may be more difficult to train, jaguars may be more hard headed, but exceptions always exist. Reply