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—whither he went—he allowed both the director of the 
Gardens and his own attendant to stroke him. 
I remember, however, an even more remarkable case. In 
the summer of 1905 my brother, John Hagenbeck of Colombo, 
sent me a panther which had been in captivity only a short 
time. I gave this panther to the Swiss sculptor, Urs Eggen- 
schwyler, who designed the beautiful rocky cliffs in the 
Stellingen Gardens. Eggenschwyler, who is unusually fond 
of animals, and who keeps for his pleasure a number of lions 
and panthers, was delighted with my present, and commenced 
at once to train the animal. In less than a fortnight, he had 
so far succeeded that it would turn round and round in ‘its 
cage when he commanded it to do so. The artist had pre- 
viously taught this trick in Zurich to a number of other ani- 
mals which had been captured adult, and on the present 
occasion he was so successful that in less than four weeks the 
panther could be made to revolve as many as eight times in 
succession. The animal’s obedience was, of course, rewarded 
with a piece of meat. 
Perhaps after what I have said my readers may think that 
after all there is nothing very alarming about the great carni- 
vores—that they are, in fact, not much more than a kind of 
meat-eating lamb. In my chapter on the training of wild 
animals I shall show that the training is by no means so 
simple as it sounds. Of its danger there can be no question, 
but nevertheless it is the case that many of those who deal 
with the carnivores professionally owe their lives to the good 
temper of the animals. 
In this connection J remember an extraordinary nocturnal 
adventure, which would, I imagine, have alarmed the bravest 
ofus. In the beginning of the sixties I was bringing from 
Cologne to Hamburg a huge collection of animals, which I 
had obtained in France and Belgium. Among the animals 
there was a four-year-old lion, which I had obtained from the 
Zoological Gardens in Cologne, then quite recently established. 
The lion was placed in a great kennel and, along with all the 
