VI ANIMAL TRAINING AND INTELLIGENCE 167 
about a week longer, and a leopard, which comes 
next in intelligence to a lion, about six weeks, to 
learn the same feats. The tiger would take seven 
or eight weeks; a tigress, eight or nine weeks.” 
Lions have been taught to ride on horseback 
and on a tricycle, draw a chariot, to form living 
tableaux by grouping themselves together, some 
upon the backs of others, etc.; but it is said that 
the most difficult feat of all is to teach a wild 
beast to let you lie upon it. This used to be 
done every night during one of Barnum’s tours, 
but the performer said the tigress underneath 
him was never contented with it. 
Though the trainers prefer to give their ex- 
hibitions just after the beasts have been fed, this 
is often impracticable and does not make much 
difference. The danger lies in the instinct of 
ferocity, not in a desire for food; and it often 
happens that performances in travelling shows 
are given with animals which have not been fed 
for two or three days. There is this difference 
between the ferocity of a lion and a tiger: the 
former will attack its master now and then out 
of spite or temper, while the tiger seizes him 
through sheer love of blood. All tigers are 
“‘man-eaters” if they dare to be. 
Lions have been a part of public shows since 
history began. They were led as trophies in the 
“triumphs” of semi-barbarians, and were ex- 
hibited and sacrificed by thousands in the Roman 
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