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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2013]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.