Soon it became common for animal trainers to risk their lives by performing with tigers, lions, bears, and other wild creatures—even rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses.
She ended up performing tricks for tourists across multiple zoos in the province, with many videos emerging of her being “trained” by her handler with chains and iron hooks.
With money to be made by breeding the best fighters, handlers selected those with tenacity and " gameness" —the ability to keep fighting despite serious injuries.
Finally, and this is something I'm going to return to on Wednesday actually, behaviorists have provided powerful techniques for training particularly for nonverbal creatures so this extends to animal trainers.
However, the company that reinvented the circus by eschewing traditional acts such as lion tamers and bearded ladies, and by targeting adults rather than children, is certainly finding it tougher going these days.
Cathy says, " There are caterers, photographers and videographers, entertainers, ice sculptors, animal trainers (you know, for the swans and the doves), and . . ." And here Seamus interrupts her.
But then seven years later, a man by the name of Edward Pembroke just so happened that he was an animal trainer in the Ringling Brothers in Barnum in Bailey Circus as a young man.