Sunday, December 10, 2006

Zirkus #5




A note from Mr. von Gilsa explained that the the Buffalo had just taken a carrot from the tiger's teeth. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 12/10/2006 05:34:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - - -

This is an act by the Russian trainer Tichonow on Circus Jaroslawl in the USSR. I would date it early 1960s.

That is no nondescript buffalo. No, the bovine is none other than a rare European bison or wisent from the forests of Poland. Tichonow had at least two of them and both performed in the big cage with two tigers. There has never been a wisent on an American circus let alone one presented in the ring. The wisent is still with us and lord knows how since its haunt lies in the area where some of the fiercest ground fighting in history was waged between German and Russian forces in the two World Wars. Yet it managed to survive. The wisent is related to our own American bison though a very different animal.

Tichonow’s act also included a cheetah, and small dog.

10 December, 2006 16:00

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