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THE ANIMAL TRAINER—SOME FAMOUS TRAINERS
To secure the right man for the training of wild animals is about the most serious problem that the proprietor1 of an animal exhibition has to solve; very often the problem remains2 unsolved.
An animal trainer is a complex and unique person in more ways than one. He is not always superlatively endowed with the characteristics that are attributed to him by most casual observers. Curiously3 enough, the very element that would seem the most essential is scarcely ever reckoned as his chief virtue4. Courage is considered by those who know little about it as one of the first requisites6, but a man may have physical and moral courage to an unusual degree and still be quite unfit for a trainer.
203 The animal trainer may have, and all do have to some extent, the physical courage which is admired, but it is an unconscious courage, and plays such a minor7 part in a successful performance, that the possession of it is not noted9, either by the trainer himself, or by those who know him. There are faculties10 far higher and far more difficult of cultivation11, as well as more rarely possessed12, which the animal trainer must have.
First of all are good personal habits. The finest lion-trainers are men of the most absolute personal integrity, who smoke and drink very little, if at all, and who possess self-control to an unusual degree. It is a fact very little known and somewhat difficult to realize by those who have not studied the matter, that in some curious, incomprehensible way, wild animals know
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personalities
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loath
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peculiar
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fascination
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paralysis
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tractable
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savage
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dominant
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allied
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judgment
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cartridges
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| v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣 | |
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agility
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aggression
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appreciation
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brute
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diversified
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privately
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sinewy
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blemish
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physically
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capabilities
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versatile
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persistency
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remarkable
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vitality
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reluctance
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leopards
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frail
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prostrate
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unlimited
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dealing
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vindictiveness
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passionate
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