| Show Doctor With Long Long-H Long Handled B Brush ush ush Can Can- Make Lions Perform a Series of Tricks Before an evening dress audience of members of the British Medical association and their wives and daughters Dr R R. H H. H Hunter lecturer lecturer lec lee in anatomy at Queens university university university uni uni- Belfast Northern Ireland entered the lions lion's den at the Belfast Zoo armed only with a long-handled long brush and made the animals perform perform per per- form orm a series of ot tricks writes a correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent in the New York Times Lions and lionesses circled stood on their hind legs and lay down at atthe atthe atthe the bidding of the doctor who is Is' Is used to training wild animals In addition to being a lecturer of the university he is a curator of the zoo I draw the line at polar bears said to reporters after the performance I would run for formy formy formy my life from one of ot them They are so uncertain They appear to tobe tobe tobe be perfectly gentle and then have havea a sudden lapse A lion Hon may leap and bite you once and hold on but buta a polar bear goes on biting you all the time i My worst experience was in this zoo with a n fully grown leopard He had escaped just as I was entering the zoo and I tried to capture him b by catching hold of his tail He turned on me and I hit him himIn himIn In the face and knocked him over He was vas bagged by keepers with sacks and got back to his But ButI I was badly bitten I use my brush to push the lions lion s whenever necessary and they take lake the hint hinL Whips Whips' or sticks only enrage enrage enrage en en- rage the animals b but t the brush does not hurt hurl themI them I I have given up p golf goll altogether lher for tor lion taming In In comp comparison fison golfis golf is far tar too slow I get as much exercise exercise ex ex- in half halt an hour in a lions lion's den as a weeks week's golf goU would give me mt I and you need to be fit ace for it |
