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The Training of Wild Animals

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Frank Charles Bostock
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A trainer and exhibitor recounts practical techniques and experiences in capturing, housing, feeding, and educating wild animals for exhibition, tracing historical practices and offering species-specific notes on lions, tigers, elephants, bears, snakes, and others. He describes early training methods, a young-animal nursery, teaching tricks, staging shows, and the principles behind successful work, stressing kindness, patience, and safety. Chapters explain capture methods, quarantine and housekeeping, dietary regimens, recognizing instinctive behavior and signs of reversion, and precautions against accidents, supplemented by anecdotes, portraits of contemporary trainers, and illustrative examples from his career.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Frank C. Bostock Frontispiece
Mr. Bostock and his eight lions 9
*Herman Weedon and his group of lions, tiger, brown, Tibet, and sloth bears, Silesian boarhounds, and hyena 20
*The towering of the kings 26
“The Three Graces” 35
“Denver” and “Cæsar” 41
Mlle. Aurora and her polar bears 48
Lion monarchs in infancy 57
“Brandu,” the snake-charmer 64
M. Johnson and his trained elephant 70
*The old arm-chair 79
Madame Pianka
From a photograph by Chickering		 85
Mr. Charles Miller and his Bengal tigers 95
Queer friends—camel, lionesses, and dromedary 106
Wild ass, quagga, and zebras 111
*Teaching a lion to ride a tricycle 122
Polar bear used at Pan-American Exposition for drawing children’s carriage 127
Elephants and trainer 137
Trained but not tamed 148
“Depew” 154
*A difficult feat 163
*“Doc” balancing himself on a ball placed on a see-saw 169
*Jaguars, leopards, and panthers 179
*Exchanging confidences 190
The largest number of lions ever grouped 196
*Herman Weedon defying his fiercest lion 205
Captain Jack Bonavita
From a photograph by Frank		 211
*Madame Morelli and her jaguars, panthers, and leopards 221
“Consul,” the chimpanzee 232
*Captain Bonavita carrying a lion weighing five hundred pounds 238
Mr. Sam Stevenson
From a photograph by Frank		 247
Polar bears at play 253

* From photographs by Hall.