A sympathetic, humorous, and authoritative study, this book, which will appeal to young readers in particular, clearly demonstrates that the only method of successful animal training depends on the trainer's ability to channel the animal's play instinct through empathy and scientific knowledge, and that this technique involves complete trust and understanding between man and beast. The lives and habits of apes, monkeys, horses, dolphins and many other popular performing animals are amusingly related by a man who has been closely associated with circus life for twenty-five years. [From jacket flap]
