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...riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...
Celebrated Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams...
...locked-eye gaze," she is told, "cats will transfer this reaction to humans, and when the stranger says 'Hi!' a cat will, according to its nature, back away or make a threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words but the sound of it." Gebel-Williams has little use for bears because they don't look...
...person and found that I had been sincere with myself." With ex-Housewife Pat Loud she discussed the lack of neighborliness in New York. The most stirring interview was when Martha came face to face with a tiger named Prince, who was under the eye of Animal Tamer Gunther Gebel-Williams Then she had a revelation of her own: "I talked my husband into becoming a Republican [in 1966]. He'd always been a Democrat. And the day I talked him out of calling the President Tricky Dick' -I could still shoot myself...
Somewhere between Gebel-Williams' caged and sensuous art and the author's own ritual purifications in the woods lies the real wild-that state of constant tension between freedom and control. It is the bewilderness, an inexhaustible human resource that Hoagland exploits while scarcely leaving a track on the forest floor. · R.Z. Sheppard