# How we rescued the "dancing bears"

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDIndia 2009
- Speaker: Kartick Satyanarayan
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kartick_satyanarayan_how_we_rescued_the_dancing_bears)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries-old practice, and in so doing discovered a lesson of wider significance: make the practitioners part of the solution.

## Lectures

1. [How we rescued the "dancing bears"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kartick_satyanarayan_how_we_rescued_the_dancing_bears/00a674b3f668), 4 min (TED's player)