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Mahout Perspectives on Asian Elephants and Their Living Conditions
The skills, knowledge, and expertise of mahouts have been recognized by organizations and individual managers who are responsible for captive elephants and by academics, where they have been a source of studies from the ethnographic to animal behavior research. In this study, I used semi-structured interviews in local languages to explore individual experiences of mahouts in Nepal. I also investigated perspectives on elephant welfare, including the use of corral (fenced) enclosures. I undertook a further key informant interview in English to gain more discursive perspectives on the topics. Our results revealed that mahouts at the study site are unlikely to come from multi-generational families of mahouts. All mahouts referenced the religious significance of elephants in their country when describing broader local perspectives. Many mahouts explained both positive and negative implications for differing strategies in housing captive elephants, often balanced the competing interests of elephant welfare with their own need for elephants to follow verbal communication, and their responsibility for the safety of the elephants, other staff, and tourists. The fine-balancing perspectives of mahouts, taking both humans and elephants into account, underlines their role as an important source of knowledge of captive Asian elephants in range countries, and their potential role as co-producers of research linked to welfare. This approach could also be of relevance to the welfare of ex-situ Asian elephants.
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The underdogs : children, dogs, and the power of unconditional love
\"Describes the unbreakable bond between humans and canines through the story of a severely disabled woman who began training her own service dogs after she was deemed too disabled to receive one by every agency in the U.S.\"--NoveList.
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Interspecies Labor in Early Cinema: Making Animal Pictures at David Horsley's Bostock Jungle and Film Company
This article examines how David Horsley's Bostock Jungle and Film Company adapted interspecies labor practices from the circus on- and offscreen in order to popularize animal pictures and legitimize animal labor and captivity. As this article documents, colonialist perspectives about human subjugation of nature through animals were translated to cinema by the adaptation of circus interspecies labor and stardom, which shaped early cinema's practice of using exotic animals as resources for filmmaking. By examining Bostock Jungle and Film Company paratexts, training manuals, and trainer autobiographies, the article sheds new light on the neglected practice of animal training and animal work in early cinema.
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The Miracle Years of Little Fork
The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
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The Making of the Circus Celebrity
From the single circus day in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1912 and across the nearly fifty years that followed, circus world management demonstrated that it knew how to attract an audience. The circus was a space where people could see the extraordinary. Opening specs offeed people a chance to see nearly the entire workforce under one tent, as thousands of people and animals re-created a scene with stunning detail and in ornate costumes. These moments were created with as little left to chance as possible, as evidenced by the intricately planned itinerary that skilled routing agents drafted, the well-rehearsed performances
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Rethinking the causes of canine aggression
Aggression began because of confusion, and aggression continued because of confusion. [...] the bond between the owner and dog was further damaged.
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Human and Animal Circus Workers and Their Knowledge Networks
While circusgoers marveled at all the sights on circus day, none was perhaps more iconic than the animals on the lot. For many people, this would have been the first time seeing this array of animals, which were most likely imported. People who worked with these animals seemed indispensable to the shows. Somebody who could do daring tricks or manage an entire herd was a commodity in the circus world. But findingpeople who had the training and ability to break into this profession and have a long career in it was difficultTheseworkers often had enough power and capital to negotiate
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