| Show jungle beasts are less dangerous than captive houston texas nans nagel diminutive minu tive curator of the fl douston zoo says stalking wild animals in the jungles of the world Is a tame job corn com pared with that of keeping them in captivity from 1004 to 1012 1912 nagel roamed the jungles of africa in sarch search of reptiles beasts and rare fowls for zoos and in those eight years he met with accident c only once an infuriated lioness lacerated his ae leg but not seriously but wild life in ca cages caes es a different story one that has meant hospitals and suffering to nagel ue lie bears scars from head to foot A boa constrictor once almost squeezed the life out of the curator caesar the zoo lion bit him through the shoulder A stork dived from the top of the bird cage and knocked the little man unconscious V W rattlesnakes have bitten nagel four times A kangaroo has kicked him to the ground and bitten his arms civet cats lobo wolves kinkajous and monkeys have gashed his hands and arras arms bobcats and hyenas have attacked attached him elephants have trod on his feet di big jim largest of the zoos alligators sent nagel to the hospital for days in 1923 1023 when the curator sought to halt the sau rians escape but the zebra dealt nagel his most painful injury the animal kicked hlin him on the right knee nagel spent four months in the hospital and was forced to use crutches for many more months |
