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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nance, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Circus > United States > History > 19th century.
Circus animals > United States > History > 19th century.
Animal welfare > United States > History > 19th century.
Elephants > United States > History > 19th century.
Tierschutz
Artist
Zirkus
Elefanten
Elephants.
Circus animals.
Circus.
Animal welfare.
Cirque > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Animaux de cirque > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Élephants > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
USA
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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