# Training of Wild Animals

An audiobook by Frank Charles Bostock, read by LibriVox volunteers (3 h 45 min, English).

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

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## Chapters

1. In Which I Become “The Boy Trainer”—A Lion Hunt in a Sewer (21:17): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_01_bostock_64kb.mp3
2. Origin and History of Wild-Animal Training (11:39): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_02_bostock_64kb.mp3
3. Housekeeping for Wild Animals (20:07): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_03_bostock_64kb.mp3
4. The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants (11:36): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_04_bostock_64kb.mp3
5. Characteristics of Different Animals (18:26): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_05_bostock_64kb.mp3
6. “Going Bad”—Animal Instinct (10:58): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_06_bostock_64kb.mp3
7. How Wild Animals are Captured (9:33): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_07_bostock_64kb.mp3
8. The Wild Animals’ Kindergarten (19:03): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_08_bostock_64kb.mp3
9. How Wild Animals are Taught Tricks (21:57): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_09_bostock_64kb.mp3
10. An Animal Show at Night (14:18): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_10_bostock_64kb.mp3
11. The Principles of Training (19:53): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_11_bostock_64kb.mp3
12. The Animal Trainer—Some Famous Trainers (21:40): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_12_bostock_64kb.mp3
13. Guarding Against Accidents (24:53): https://archive.org/download/training_wild_animals_2106_librivox/trainingwildanimals_13_bostock_64kb.mp3