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Entertaining Elephants : Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus /

"Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior - drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications - to offer a study of elepha...

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Autor principal: Nance, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why elephants in the early republic?
  • Becoming an elephant "actor"
  • Learning to take direction
  • Punishing bull elephants
  • Herd management in the gilded age
  • Going off script
  • Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now.