A Hollywood animal trainer recounts his adoption of a four-month-old African lion cub as part of a plan to institute more humane training practices, describing how his nurture-based program helped him forge a loving bond with the great cat and enabled better standards of care for performance animals[...]

"The Beauty of the Beasts" is a chronicle of many years Ralph Helfer spent as a Hollywood animal behaviourist, and is full of behind-the-scenes accounts of the many television programs and films in which Helfer's animals appeared, including "Charlie's Angels" and "The Ten Commandments", and the star[...]