Ivan Deforge, the French 'bison tamer' in Moscow
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Ivan Deforge, the French 'bison tamer' in Moscow
The 56-year-old Frenchman has taken on the unusual challenge of training European bison to perform things they would not naturally do in the wild. Circuses using wild animals have fallen out of favour across much of Europe due to concerns over animal cruelty, and France plans to ban them outright from December 2028. But in Russia, more than 1,000 animals are currently made to perform in circuses across the country, nearly all of them state-run, …
Ivan Deforge, 56 years old, attacks a notoriously difficult animal in the arena of the Moscow Grand Circus. His two 300-pound protégés are getting ready to do this... Read more A Frenchman sets up bison from Europe under the Moscow capital appeared first on Le Singulier.
"There are two kinds of bison," explains Ivan Deforge at the AFP, after a dressage session with his two-year-old two-year-old "boys" with brown and red coats.The American bison, more docile, are those generally seen in the...
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