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Wild animals in the ancient Rome

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Venatores them to fight with wild beasts. Some fighting was done, just among the animals and the "bestiary" which protected the legs and arms with leather straps and armed themselves only with a spear fashioned from Spartan. Among the "bestiary" were the "venatores" who wore instead of the massive armor and will perform special exercises maneuvering on beautiful horses.There were also fighting against the bulls, like the bullfights and modern animals were caused by the "taurarii" that they faced the arena with a spear. It seems that the wild beasts that fought with the "bestiary" were connected via a cord (in solid leather) in the neck and arms that enabled him to turn over certain limits.In addition to fighting with the "bestiary", the "venatores" and "taurarii" beasts fought with each other and fighting sometimes took forms very bloody and exciting, because there were so many involved animals of different breeds ( For example, buffalo and rhino that fought against the elephant) that energized the crowds have attacked frastuno angry, uttering the verses terrible.Sometimes one of the "bestiary", also included women who were views over the wild beasts to win with a courage equal to that of the famous Hercules.tamed beast.The venationes usually ended with performances by trained animals "mansuetari.


These animals, once broken, were taught to juggle a number of games and stunts and spectacular performancesThe animals killed in the Colosseum and other amphitheaters Empire were indeed many.

To die were often of exotic animals such as, ostriches that the Emperor Commodus enjoyed beheaded by the sword.There were cases in which the fights were equal between men and animals. Men dressed like the gladiators fought trying to survive against bears, lions, leopards, and it seems that they fought together in the arena.In other shows you could watch the battle between large animals such as between an elephant and a bull or rhino. These attendants were chained and some prodding them nervous and annoyed with the auction to incite them to fight.The exotic animals were captured in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and the death of all these specimens were used in the shows to amphitheatres throughout the empire provoked the disappearance of even the most sensitive species that did not exceed the trip after being captured in their natural environment where they lived freely.

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Daniele Davide, manager of Tredy Sas.

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