Entertaining Elephants Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus |
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| Author:
| Nance, Susan |
| Series title: | Animals, History, Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-0829-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behaviordrawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communicationsto offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus ......
Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behaviordrawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communicationsto offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus ......