. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. 234 BEASTS AND MEN their powerful muscles; and visitors as a rule cannot con- ceive at first what barrier there is to keep them in. The broad trench which serves this purpose is so carefully con- cealed with thick brushwood and plants that the illusion is almost complete. It is only in comparatively recent years that I have ventured to exhibit animals in this fashion. The first occa- sion was at the Berlin Exhibition in 1896, and later on I tried
. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. 234 BEASTS AND MEN their powerful muscles; and visitors as a rule cannot con- ceive at first what barrier there is to keep them in. The broad trench which serves this purpose is so carefully con- cealed with thick brushwood and plants that the illusion is almost complete. It is only in comparatively recent years that I have ventured to exhibit animals in this fashion. The first occa- sion was at the Berlin Exhibition in 1896, and later on I tried it at Leipsic and several other places, but my greatest. The "Japanese" island. success was at the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904. Before substituting a trench for railings, I had, of course, to carry out a series of experiments to discover how far the animals could jump. Any underestimate of their saltatory powers might, indeed, be attended with terrible consequences. I therefore investigated carefully their capacity both at the high jump and the long jump. In the case of the feline carnivores my experiments were made some time ago when I was still at Neuer Pferdemarkt. For the high jump my method was to take a stuffed pigeon and fix it to a projecting branch of a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913. London, New York [etc. ] : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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