Show crocodile r OCO d n 0 I 1 ce huntimer Hun tiner Is Thrill billin 0 mg sport S P ort na i field museum collectors find 4 ample excitement in the swamps of honduras r al chicago navo you over ever played hide and seek book with a crocodile at knight night asks karl harl 0 schmidt who with leon 4 walters just ro returned turned to the field museum otter after four months in honduras collecting reptiles the game Is exciting 0 especially it if played in a swampy forest and it if tile tho crocodile tags taga you certainly realize youre itt it I 1 but in this case and ho he holds up tile the skin of a vicious five footer 1 I got him first tills this specimen I 1 got in british honduras wo we had caught several smaller ones but wanted a big follow fellow they only grow to about five feet there we later inter got some eleven footers in the republic oi of honduras but on this y night walters anda and I 1 went out with the customary headlights on our forehead a 4 all ready to kill tile he headlight dazzles alea tile the eyes of tile the animal and gives tho the hunter the tho advantage pretty soon 41 I 1 saw this brawny chap slav vering around in a 0 puddle about a toot foot deep blinded creature good wrestler schmidt ond and walters also includes of a tree climbing salamander an animal about four inches long that lives alvea in tho the tubular leaves of tho the air plant these leaves always contain water in their bottoms it Is here ahat the salamander exists heller haller en route with Specimen it john T zimmer has returned from a year of explorations in peru he taul of meeting edmund neller another of tho the field museums collectors in peru in april 1022 for more than a year heller and ills his wife havo have been scouring south american hills and forests in search of specimens of mammals to stun stuff and bring back to the field museum they are also bringing a few live rarities for the lincoln park zoo among the collection to bo be mounted for the museum are the leaf nosed bat the oil bird or owl that Is not an owl a species of which thousands of specimens wore were found in tho the lechuga lechuza cave and from whoso choso fat young the natives make a fino salad oil a vampire animal like a bear with a tooth like the blade of a knife and others equally odd |