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Lion taming, the Glossary

Index Lion taming

Lion taming is the taming and training of lions, either for protection or for use in entertainment, such as the circus.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 40 relations: Animal training, Ángel Cristo, Big cat, Black panther, Carl Hagenbeck, Cheetah, Circus, Circus Krone, Claire Heliot, Clyde Beatty, Cougar, Entertainment, Esso, Freedom for Animals, George Wombwell, Great British Circus, Gunther Gebel-Williams, Irina Bugrimova, Isaac A. Van Amburgh, Jaguar, Leopard, Lion, Mabel Stark, Martin Lacey, Martin Lacey Jr., Martini Maccomo, Merchant, National Library of Australia, Performing arts, Polar bear, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Rose Flanders Bascom, Show business, Suresh Biswas, Thomas Macarte, Tiger, Tilly Bébé, Victorian era, Wildlife, Zoo.

  2. Animal training
  3. Animals in entertainment
  4. Lions and humans
  5. Lions in popular culture

Animal training

Animal training is the act of teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli. Lion taming and animal training are circus skills.

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Ángel Cristo

Ángel Papadopoulos Dordi (17 October 1944 in Huelva – 4 May 2010 in Madrid) was a Spanish circus performer.

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Big cat

The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar.

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Black panther

A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca).

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Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck (10 June 1844 – 14 April 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.

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Cheetah

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Circus Krone

Circus Krone, based in Munich, is one of the largest circuses in Europe and one of the few in Western Europe (along with Cirque d'hiver de Paris, Cirque d'hiver d'Amiens and Cirque Royal in Brussels) to also occupy a building.

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Claire Heliot

Klara Haumann (née Pleßke; 3 December 1866 – 9 June 1953), known professionally as Claire Heliot, was a German lion tamer.

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Clyde Beatty

Clyde Raymond Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.

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Esso

Esso is a trading name for ExxonMobil.

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Freedom for Animals

Freedom for Animals (FFA) is the working name of the Captive Animals' Protection Society, a charity registered in England campaigning to end the display of animals in zoos, and the use of animals in entertainment, such as circuses, the exotic pet trade and the audio-visual industry.

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George Wombwell

George Wombwell (24 December 1777 – 16 November 1850) was a famous menagerie exhibitor in Regency and early Victorian Britain.

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Great British Circus

Great British Circus was a company that specialized in circus entertainment.

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Gunther Gebel-Williams

Gunther Gebel-Williams (September 12, 1934 – July 19, 2001) was an animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1968 to 1990.

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Irina Bugrimova

Irina Nikolayevna Bugrimova (March 13, 1910 – February 20, 2001) was the first female lion tamer in the Soviet Union.

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Isaac A. Van Amburgh

Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1808–1865) was an American animal trainer who developed the first trained wild animal act in modern times.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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Mabel Stark

Mabel Stark (December 10, 1889 – April 20, 1968), whose real name was Mary Ann Haynie, was a renowned tiger trainer of the 1920s.

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Martin Lacey

Martin Lacey (born 1947) is a circus ringmaster, company director and trainer of wild animals.

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Martin Lacey Jr.

Martin Lacey Jr. (born 8 June 1977) is an English circus performer and trainer of wild animals who has achieved fame in Germany.

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Martini Maccomo

Martini Maccomo (died 11 January 1871) was a lion tamer in Victorian Britain.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Ringling Bros.

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Rose Flanders Bascom

Rose Flanders Bascom, born in Contoocook (a village of Hopkinton), Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in 1880, was the first American woman lion tamer, who performed in the circus in the early 1900s.

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Show business

Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.

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Suresh Biswas

Captain Suresh Biswas (1861 – 22 September 1905) was a 19th-century adventurer from India.

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Thomas Macarte

Thomas Macarte (January3, 1872) was a one-armed lion tamer who as Massarti the Lion-Tamer was attacked and killed during a circus performance in Bolton in Lancashire.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.

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Tilly Bébé

Mathilde Rupp (27 March 187911 April 1932), known by the stage name Tilly Bébé, was an Austrian circus performer.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.

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See also

Animal training

Animals in entertainment

Lions and humans

Lions in popular culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_taming

Also known as Lion tamer, Lion tamers, Lion trainer, Lion-Tamero, Liontamer, Tame lion.