Wednesday, September 15, 2010

From Chic Silber #6


LIONCUB, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.


Just wanted to show that I've had experience with wild exotics

Just couldn't find an agent that would handle my bookings

Posted by Buckles at 9/15/2010 06:15:00 AM

3 comments:

Wade G. Burck said...

Chic,
This is the best you could do in the blank stare department(that is what a blind person, say a Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder has. It is the purpose for the sunglasses). Young cubs, like all baby mammals, including humans, haven't developed the ability to focus on something at a distance. It keeps them safe, instead of blindly running out of the nesting area, at any movement. They have to wait until the mother is close enough to be identified, before they rush to her. The lion above is non committal/indifferent. Note his contracted pupils(as opposed to the dilated pupils on Edelstein's lion) , and the cock of his head. He see's the photographer, all right, as he has seen hundreds of photographers a day for his whole life. He has accepted, and don't bother getting up, so hasn't "fixed" his stare at photographer. He accepts there is no way he is going to made that distance, get over a moat, and catch him. Same thing he has looked at his whole life, thus the non committal/indifferent look. Unlike Edelstein's lion who only see's a Jimmy Cole or a Paul Gutheil once in a while, up close through mesh or bars, that he know's he can catch, or at least has a good chance. Uninitiated folks will often times repeat something that someone has said out of jealousy or spite, as the gospel. That is how sterotypes and fallacy's are perpetrated about animals(instead of looking at who is saying it and why in the circus industry), which goes along way in validating the as uninitiated animal activists.
Wade Burck

P.S. Watch the squirrel. The chance's of it biting you in the wild are nil to none given it is afraid of you. Now that you have either raised it from birth or gotten it at a young age, it has lost that "natural" fear and will bite, if startled or upset. It no longer looks at you as a predator. It now accepts you as a squirrel, and will deal with you like it would deal with any other squirrel.

15 September, 2010 06:57
Chic Silber said...

Good morning Wade & thanks for the

essay & animal lesson (you might

look into a teaching position at

"Sarasota Jungle Gardens" I just

read that Linda & Ellian Rosaire

have taken over the animal dept)

That squirrel dropped out of it's

nest 1 afternoon & the mother

came for it the next day

15 September, 2010 08:52
Wade G. Burck said...

Chic,
I love training animals way to much.

Wade Burck

15 September, 2010 11:04

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