Working with Wild Animals  (2003)

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Working with Wild Animals

Around the world, professional animal trainers must risk life and limb by walking a daily tightrope - suspended between loving and gentle camaraderie with their friends of the wild, and fatal miscalculations that could propel them straight into the arms of beastly death. The nature documentary Working with Animals provides eleven biographical profiles of these individuals, who wax at length on the joys and dangers of animal training; subjects include: Canadian Tony Van Zuilchom, who nearly lost his life to an irate jaguar but has established an incredible rapport with a pack of wolves; Las Vegas-based magician Rick Thomas, who lives with a group of playful yet potentially lethal tiger cubs; South American Andrea Valido, famous for amassing exotic species of animals including capybaras and anteaters; and eight others . ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide