There is also the thinking-man's tiger trainer, who, eschewing the bullwhip, seems to psychologically will 16 Sumatran tigers through their paces.

"I truly became the tiger trainer I had always dreamed of being," he wrote of that time.

Mark Oliver Gebel, one of Ringling Brothers's top tiger trainers, has "showman" draped all over him.

A tiger trainer named Alan Gold owned a pair of Amur tigers which once produced a stillborn white cub.

The seventh generation of a European circus dynasty, Ms. Houcke is taking the center ring without relying on the classic props of the testosterone-happy tiger trainer.

Although Ms. Houcke had never before worked with cats, she had the example of her great-uncle, Gilbert Houcke, a legendary European tiger trainer.

But first, she, her father, and an Indian tiger trainer have to find Raja before the National Guard, who are under orders to shoot the tiger on sight.

(Stark was married 4 or 5 times) Soon, she became a tiger trainer in the ring.

Only 22, Mr. Rosaire is billed by Cole Brothers as the youngest lion and tiger trainer in the world.

Tromba, a film about a tiger trainer, was released in 1948.