When asked about his fascination with the animal by [Dick] Cavett, the artist describes anteaters as “angelic.” A master of PR, Dalí knew well by this stage in his career the marketability of his eccentricities but even so, his longstanding affinity to anteaters does seem earnest, and certainly well-documented.
Photo: Salvador Dalí walking a giant anteater in Paris, 1969.
The poor baby anteater gets tossed on the floor...
What a fucking asshole.
Then again, foof... different Iberian culture... one in which they enjoy watching brave / foolhardy matadors enrage, and then break down upon death a healthy bovine-bull through their showy gallantry, or however that goes.
As much as that and famous 'tiger-trainer' Mabel Stark bother me, it's still just a microscopic drop in the bucket when it comes to modern "animal-husbandry," which has become so utterly cruel and soulless as to... well, that's probably a post for another day. 😅
Still, I find there's a certain philosophical / ideological quandary-- better to have the brutal 'Roman Circus' right in front of your eyes, or better for people out-of-sight to be doing the most horrific things to habitat, and animals 'less important to humanity,' etc.
(eh, this is like a bunch of comments upon all kinds of stuff, so I apologise for going a bit off the rails, mate; my bad)