【美国人物志】格贝尔·威廉姆斯(11/11)

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仅凭声音，冈瑟·格贝尔—威廉斯一次可指挥18只老虎，调动32只大象。他驯过马、豹、美洲狮、斑马，甚至还驯过一头长颈鹿。他是一位杰出的天才驯兽人，一亿多人看过他的表演，为他鼓掌喝彩，他甚至改变了美国人对野生动物马戏表演的看法。
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Gunther Gebel
Kenny
Mr. Gebel-Williams
Zorro
Sigrid Neubauer
Mark Oliver
Ringling
Gunther Gebel-Williams

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Even when animals attacked, Gunther Gebel Williams did not become angry. After Kenny died, Mr. Gebel-Williams was performing one day with a panther named Zorro. Zorro weighed two times as much as Kenny. Suddenly Zorro started making a threatening noise. Then he bit his trainer deeply in the neck. But Mr. Gebel-Williams would not go to the hospital until he calmed the animal and got it back in its cage.
The marriage of Mr. Gebel-Williams and his first wife ended. His second wife, Sigrid Neubauer, became a circus performer. They had been married 33 years when Mr. Gebel-Williams died. They raised a daughter and a son. The son, Mark Oliver, now serves as a star trainer of tigers with a Ringling circus company. Friends say Mr. Gebel-Williams was a loving husband and father. Yet they add that his deepest relationships probably were with his animals. He called animals dependable and honest although he sometimes suffered from their attacks. Gunther Gebel-Williams once said he liked animals more than most human beings.