The Training of Wild Animals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Training of Wild Animals by Frank Charles Bostock: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 3:45:20 running time and a link to listen.
The Training of Wild Animals, credited to Frank Charles Bostock, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Training of Wild Animals by Frank Charles Bostock. Read in English by ToddHW; Heather Eney; Gini Rosario; Fern; Nicola Jablow; Natdok Today, performing animals are frowned on by many but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, traveling menageries afforded entertainment for the masses. The Bostock family were famous in England at the time, for traveling around the country with a bevy of wild animals, many not seen before in provincial towns. If these animals could be trained to perform "tricks", rather than behave more naturally, so much the better. This volume gives an insight into the training and care of assorted animals. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Training of Wild Animals
- Author credits: Frank Charles Bostock
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 3:45:20
Catalogue topics
- training
- circus
- wild animals
- lions
- menagerie
Track guide
- 01 - In Which I Become “The Boy Trainer”—A Lion Hunt in a Sewer — 21:17
- 02 - Origin and History of Wild-Animal Training — 11:39
- 03 - Housekeeping for Wild Animals — 20:07
- 04 - The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants — 11:36
- 05 - Characteristics of Different Animals — 18:26
- 06 - “Going Bad”—Animal Instinct — 10:58
- 07 - How Wild Animals are Captured — 9:33
- 08 - The Wild Animals’ Kindergarten — 19:03
- 09 - How Wild Animals are Taught Tricks — 21:57
- 10 - An Animal Show at Night — 14:18
- 11 - The Principles of Training — 19:53
- 12 - The Animal Trainer—Some Famous Trainers — 21:40
- 13 - Guarding Against Accidents — 24:53
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