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The cover of the 1946 Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus,® The Greatest Show on Earth® (RBBBC) magazine features a female performer with a live leopard lying across her shoulders (Figure 16).1 The leopard’s green eyes stare out at the viewer captured by the camera. The flesh of the woman’s shoulders and torso is exposed by her Hollywood jungle-inspired costume, and the live leopard is positioned like a large neck fur. This carrying feat, however, was usually seen in the live circus, even though human and animal circus performers did a wide range of film stunts from the earliest Tarzan films.
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Tait, P. (2011). Leopard around the Neck. In: Wild and Dangerous Performances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354012_5
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