Show 9 r 1 C UI J aIl M- M MAn s An American Expedition on Its W Way Wad ay f tw to the Jungle to Gather the Most 4 Remarkable Collection of Animals Since Noahs Noah's Ark t Y The hornbill one of the curious birds which the hunters are anxious anxious anxious ious to bring to America This specimen is in the London zoo and r was photographed just after it had caught one of the rats of which it is so fond W the next few months itis it W V is hoped and confidently expected ex- ex that a great treat ocean liner will come steaming into New York or orsome orsome some other American port bringing to this country as extraordinary a collection collection collection tion of animals as has been gathered to- to together together to together gether since Noah Nonh built his ark The floating menagerie bound for Cor the National Zoo in Washington D C from U I the wilds of African jungles Q will be stocked with some of oC the strangest birds and beasts and reptiles known to zoology and md in all probability some somei which right at this moment have not yet been discovered ered I Besides elephants rhInoceroses rhinoceroses rhinoceroses lions giraffes and other already familiarly known types type of African wild life needed atthe atthe at atthe the zoo there will be specimens J mens of a number of very very rare and curiously 4 adapted wolves beasts beasts aard pygmy antelopes o a monkeys elephant shrews throws the tho th aardvark and the tho backed armor-backed Gorgeously Gor- Gor Gorgeously plumed birds buds birds horribly venomous snakes and an as- as assortment assortment as assortment of strange insects will complete the sailing list There will be at least species of oC f wild animals on onboard onboard board board this ship which have never hitherto been seen en in America J Under the direction of the Smith Smith- Smithsonian Smithsonian Smith Ionian II Institution of Washington on D C the expedition to capture and assemble these jungle creatures has already em- em embarked embarked em embarked barked for tor Africa Dr William M Mann 4 superintendent of the National Zoo is leading the party which includes many experienced field naturalists naturalist sportsmen writers and photographers Walter P Chrysler wealthy automobile manufacturer manufacturer is furnishing the financial backing This Smithsonian-Chrysler Smithsonian expedition to capture alive such a Teat great t number and variety of wild beasts is believed to be bethe bethe bethe the most pretentious undertaking of its kind ever attempted Compared to it the famous Roosevelt big biff game hunt of 1909 also sponsored by the Smithsonian seems a mere aero pleasure trip Shoot Shooting specimens for mounting in museums the object of the tho Roosevelt party is a fairly simple thing thine compared to taking wily fierce be beasts ts alive and in good health for the th ZOO I zoos zoo's cages cage Tanganyika Territory in British East Africa is the of the tb expedition expedition expedition tion The jungles and dryer open plains in this section offer a very happy hunting gro ground nd for naturalists because of the tho wide variety of animal life liCo lit harbored in ina ina ina a comparatively small email area Proceeding inland from Crom Dar Sa Dar Sa laam the party will set up a camp on a ranch not too far from irom a railroad Get Get- Getting Getting Getting ting a recalcitrant elephant 1 P F 0 O ll B is isa isa isa a big enough job even when a railroad is handy The camp will be headquarters headquarters headquarters for the animal trappers during the th entire stay of five or six months io in the th field Special parties will be sent tent into the wilder parts of the territory to seek animals desired y Sy jy the National Zoo I Since this is distinctly ly a live animal expedition and not a 11 big game hunting one the members have all been pledged not to shoot to kill except in self self- T R ti i 1 i 1 r p-r r- r rl l I t y to a M N- N J L y 1 The rhinoceros viper one of the many species of deadly serpents with which West Africa abounds Many naturalists consider it the most beautiful of all snakes in its colorings and markings markins defense or when some of the more common com com- common common mon game animals are needed for tor food Any inquisitive jungle cat may prowl about the camp cami with perfect impunity except for Cor the chance of being shang shang- shanghaied shanghaied and shipped to civilization An experienced wild animal l trainer from Crom the National Zoological Park will remain in camp in charge of a corps of natives whom he will train to receive and care for tor the strange wild beasts until they may be placed aboard the ship for America Special shipping crates have been designed and sent along with the party ready to be bo set up when the camp in the jungle is reached The Th crates will be used used as models by the native carpenters who will build enough moro more on the ground to accommodate the luck of the th the hunters Such care carefully lly planned pitfalls will be dug at strategic points in the territory so many box traps will be set and so many skillfully laid snares will be placed by the expeditionary scouts that it will willbe willbe willbe be It a avery a very clever leopard lioness hunting dog or hyena that wont won't find itself sud- sud suddenly sud suddenly dimly denly denly booked for a visit to America Only the th most precocious of the curious or monks or orthe orthe orthe the rarer Sykes species will be able ablo to elude the traps set especially for them There Ther will be be several great drives when large forces of natives will wi beat the bush to head into the great stockade large herds of young wild animals of the tho plains From the beasts to so captured Dr Mann and his associates hope to be able to select som some some very fine specimens specimen of II a dozen rare types of antelopes The zoo is particularly anxious to get some sable table antelopes the eared fringe fringe oryx the topi the he the bush bush- bushbuck buck buck the th kudu various reed reedbucks bucks py pygmy y antelopes that are not a foot high and perhaps some others i v f A l Hal I r t N f t The aardvark or ant bear an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary animal whose existence was un- un unknown un unknown known to science until about twenty r years ago Note its grotesque pig like pit snout its huge huso ears and its kangaroo kangaroo- like kangaroo A like tail It has very few teeth and has little use for them for it lives II entirely upon ants which it gathers in by the thousand with one lick of its enormously long tongue The antelopes and gazelles are found all over Africa but they stay tay in such isolated themselves quickly herds and adapt so quickly to environment that that each section has its own special special special cial strain Some of them are arc arcas areas arcas as definitely marked as zebras These are the ones that still dwell in the sharply splotch splotched ell sun and shadow of the jungles Those that frequent the dry reddish bush are protectively colored also and nd resemble closely a Jersey cow The antelopes have been killed in such numbers by the natives for food that some varieties are extremely scarce The Dutch for duckers may still be found in the denser jungles where laying their stout horns down fiat flat along their backs they duck through the undergrowth and under the fallen trunks as easily as a ground hog They are very difficult to stalk because they live liven in n such isolated spots but once a duiker path has been discovered the rest is easy These antelopes form Corm habits easily and insist on going to water at the very same place and the very same time each day Once one of their preferred preferred watering places is found a trap may be set with perfect certainty that the game will hap hap- happen happen pen hap pen along and almost the th exact minute of the capture may be b gauged The eland is another antelope which the Smithsonian Chrysler Smithsonian Chrysler expedition hope to get They want enough specie specimens specimens mens to start a breeding herd at the th National Zoo The London zoo has been propagating them for tor years with huge success Some years ago the Duke of Bedford presented a pair to the Wash Wash- Washington Washington Washington ington zoo but now only the lone aged cow remains Elands were at one time very plentiful plentiful plentiful ful in Africa but they have been exterminated ex- ex exterminated ex exterminated terminated by the natives almost as thor thor- thoroughly thoroughly as the American buffalo They ue are easily killed because they are ar too heavy to move swiftly and the antelope must depend mainly on his heels for pro pro- protection protection pro protection The Th elands eland's horns are so twisted that that they are not very dangerous weapons and its mane is easily caught by the thorny bush The only difficulty car capturing turing elands will offer offer to this party will bF be to sight them That is hard but the tho rest is easy and they are as docile docie as cattle in cap cap- captivity th th-ity th ity The Is h h- h han an- an another an another other strange trophy that will ill be zealously sought for Cor This noisy little Animal that makes the whole jungle re- re resound resound re resound sound with its weird screaming calls is the tb coney Moses denounced it as unclean be cause it the cud yet di- di di n not its s hoof It is smaller 3 t r i Iff I i faQ r t vI a af f fill 4 v ty p Q 1 4 t 11 III rD M 1 r k al De Det t I H Has 9 t s as r ft fir 1 t 45 t LU 1 It f 1 fI v v i t T t f 7 J 1 KV t A- A Jf I IVA tI r f ri 7 i f i iI I kt fj A 1 lh It r i tS t 3 S a 1 i t tt t 4 J J tJ II f it A I I f t l r k ac Pf If 1 itY ii 5 J it If I 1 f f J f ff tb 1 ti f 7 W 0 v Q f 3 IL l 1 V i 1 t 1 J i 1 v i iThe t tA 8 A s sr r a The leopard is one of the most elusive and feroci- feroci ferocious I of jungle beasts To take alive the several specimens specimens mens the expedition hopes for will call for the great great- greatest greatest l leat est eat skill and bravery on the part of the hunters hunter pride of Washington No matrimonial I bureau ever before went to such lengths and courted such dan dangers rs to prom promote te Y I If f shrew R with th its elongated trunk trunk- trunk like like snout but which is otherwise 11 neither either kith nor kin kin of its ponderous pachyderm neighbor will also have haye reservations on the return boat The aardvarks grotesque little animals ani- ani animals ani animals mals with heavy pig-like pig body kangaroo tails long ears and claws are arc probably the most interesting crea crea- creatures crea- crea creatures creatures tures that the expedition has bas a weather eye out for Cor It was not more than twenty years ago that an English scientist scientist first fast reported their existence and was immediately discredited as an adherent of the truth Even when he exhibited the strange claws skull and skeleton of the thi aardvark fellow Cell ow scientists scientists scientists told him that they didn't believe there was any such animal nor had there been since the p times But subsequent explorers confirmed the re- re report report re report port and finally a live specimen was taken to London The Tho eats cats ants tearing up their hills hips with its great claws and thrusting its long sticky tongue into the squirming thousands of inhabitants Aardvark is Boer for ground pig It is not in the th least ferocious but mighty hard to capture It burrows into the th ground so rapidly that it takes a force of six men with picks a couple of hours to catch up with it it It is a strong little beast too although it is no larger than thana a domestic pig Agile little nat native e who have been setto set lIet lIetto setto to watch a hole have hav manfully made handed bare handed grabs at the emerging aard aard- aardvark aard only to be dragged bodily back into its burrow unless they let go It can candra dra drag ft a grown man n along Nt C Ci i t tr r iS iSS S a at at 4 t t than a rabbit but i 7 Z n for all its it is the closest liv- liv liv living At least a pair pair of elands a singularly shy but very docile species species of ing relation of the antelope that is is ill rapidly becoming extinct is one of the chief prizes elephant on which the leaders of the hunting expedition have set their hearts The tiny ele- ele the open country until he is is shaken off oft When their holes are ure dug into just as apt as not instead of an a python will be b found with the eater ant ant digesting peacefully in its stomach The great snakes crawl into the aardvarks aardvark's burrow swallow the occupant lay their eggs ggs and then coil up and go to sleep for fora fora fora a couple of weeks in perfect luxury Nor Norare Norare Norare are they the only native beasts that usurp the aardvarks aardvark's home Nearly every other animal that has a desire for cave cave- dwelling cave dwelling just moves in and makes him him- himself himself him self at home The aardvark is the billet billet- billeting billeting billeting ing officer of the jungle and plain The backed armor-backed with Its great big shining scales is quite as curi curl curious curious ous as the aardvark and very much like I it except for its body's covering It was the strange double tracks that the makes that led some excited naturalists a few years ago to report that a dinosaur still dwelt in the jungles of Africa The natives arc are quite super super- superstitious superstitious about the th pong believing that rings made of their armor plates will ward off of the th evils of witchcraft and that their blood sprinkled in the cattle pens will increase fertility Them Their flesh is also considered a great delicacy for food and for these reasons the pong pong-aUns have been almost exterminated On the incoming animal boat will be bone one of the most unusual groups of pie pic ture pic ture brides that any ship ever over brought to this country One of the p prime ime pur pur- purposes purposes poses of the expedition was to get some new blood for the th lion cages in the th National Zoo and to furnish some nice vivacious mates for several handsome bachelor lions that have hav long been the th matchmaking and it itis is hoped that these A f r i can c a n lioneSses will be pleased with the American hus hus- husbands hus- hus husbands husbands bands some genera genera- generations generations generations removed from their native jungles The English gov gov- government gov- gov government government 0 offers f fer s a ab b bounty 0 u n t y for dead lions in Tanganyika so the Smithsonian Smithsonian- Smithsonian Chrysler Chrysler party will have bave to raise the offer to make the native lion hunters bag their game alive Whenever a mother lion is killed they I will be requested to preserve the young and turn them in at the camp for a very good To price get hold of a III promising ing specimen of rhinoceros it IS is pro probable b a b I Ie e that a mother animal will have to be killed in order to take the young which are more tractable and easier to manage One of the most hazardous tasks that faces these Smithsonian scouts will be bethe bethe bethe the bagging of a number of reptiles foj COf the bite of some of these is i certain death There are the giant pythons the tin spit spit- spitting spitting ting cobras which it will take uke a very nimble naturalist to ensnare and puff adders and black mambas the which was formerly not considered ven ven- venomous venomous but which is now known to be bevery bevery bevery very much so and the fearful looking rhinoceros viper which some ardent naturalists have declared to be the most beautifully colored creature in the whole animal kingdom but of which the ama amateur had bad best beware Parrots and love birds the th fish eagles the horn hornbills bills the secretary bird that preys upon snakes the sun birds various types of vultures brilliantly colored |