Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived

By the author of Modoc:A famed trainer's "wonderful" memoir of his bond with a lion—and his quest to change how animals were treated in Hollywood (People).

When Ralph Helfer, author of Modoc and one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection training"—that love, not fear, should be the basis of any animal's development, even when dealing with the most dangerous of creatu...