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tomo&ie AiAftuFfcturer
Animals Never - Before Seen
In America to be Brought
. Alive to Washington. Rare
Birils and Reptiles Also
Sought in Ques t Which
Penetrates the Heart of
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UNDER the aaspieet of the
Smlthtoniaa IiuUtvtlon of
Washington, -. preparations
hare JJkt been ' completed tor the
greatest expedition for the capture
of wild animals known in the zoo
logical history of this country. The
Smithsonian expedition of 1909,
headed by 'former President Theo
dore Ttooserdt, was deroted to col
lectiag specimens of wild nimly
for museum purposes. The object
of the new quest is to collect only
living animals birds and reptiles
for soo exhibition and scientific par
poses. The Smithsonian-Chrysler Expe
dition, as this . scientific adventure
Is known, is being financed by Wal-
ter P. Chrysler, prominent antomo
H . bile manufacturer. It will be headed
by Dr. William H. Mann, director
of the National Zoological Park at
Washington, who brought the urgent
.need of the Park for new specimens
v to Mr. Chrysler's , attention, and In
duced mm to proTtde tne necessary
funds. - v
Dr. Manns story was empha
' sixed by the disappointment of the
, thousands of children, visitors to the
park, who were not able to find a
single giraffe there. Upon the re
turn of Dr. Mann's party there will
be several giraffe's quartered in the
park together with hundreds of spec
imen's of the largest and smallest
of African -wild-animal life, inelud
'lag fully one hundred specimens
never before seen alive In this coun-
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Cooperating with the Smithsonian
Instftation are the Museum of Com-
. r ,pratie Zo9LoJ Harvard Uni
versity, the Unseam of Zoology of
the University of Michigan, the Zoo
logical Society of London, and the
Pathe News, which will make
pictorial record of the activities of
the expedition, and Its rl&-full of
living animals
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Dr.. Mann and his party of sci
e lists and animal men are heading
fr Dar-s-Salaaa, the seaport for
the Tanganyika ten Dory of British
Bast Africa, , . w . l
,;. .At Dr-es-Salam, the Smrthson-lan-Chrysler
Expedition wffl. be met
by hundreds of the best native ani
mal hunters of the 'Wasalamu tribe
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descendants of the full-blooded
Africans who prospered and -grew
rich in the old African slave trade
Morogoros, Wakamis, Wagogos,
and other tribes that know this vast
territory of Tanganyika, its animals,
and how to capture them.
Near Dar-es-Salaam, a permsnent
camp will be established not too re
mote from the railroad, where the
model cages, already built by the
National Zoo at Washington, will
be set up and duplicated by the na
tive carpenters and the automobiles
and the army of porters made ready
for -the expedition, which will start
for the interior of this wild country
made famous by the early explora
tions of Livingstone and Sir Henry
Stanley.
Many subsidiary expeditions will
be sent out, each commanded by
members of the Smithsonian-Chrysler
Expedition, and manned with
the necessary number of practical
animal men from the Washington
Zoo, and groups of the best' hunting
natives from the particular wilder
nesses to be penetrated.
By means of these parties, each
part of the Tanganyika territory
will be thoroughly combed for the
particular kind of animals this ex
pedition expects to bring back to
the National Zoo.
Personnel of th Expedition
In addition to Dr. Mann and the
National Zoological Park animal
men and the native chiefs and tbeiri
hunters this Smithsonian-Chrysler
Expedition numbers among ' Its
members Albert J. Love ridge, of
the Museum of Comparative Zoology
of Harvard University, who for
eight years was assistant game war
den in the Tanganyika-territory, and
who personally knows the chiefs of
the various tribes to be employed
as hunters. Dr. Loveridge is al
ready at Dar-es-Salaam, making the
necessary advance preparations.
.Stephen Haweis, naturalist, artist
and, author, Charles Charlton,
Pathe Moving Picture man, and
other weQ known scientific men are
aso members of the expedition.
Dr. Mann, the director, is one of
the best qualified Individuals in the
country for such an expedition. Not
only is he a scientist of recognised
i standing, but be has had nearly
to Have Finest Collection, of Animals for Its 2,000,000 Yearly Visitors
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SALEM OREGON
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CHARLES D.WALCOTT
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every kind of field experience in al-,
most every part of the world on
similar scientific expeditions. ' V
He - is a graduate of Stanford
University and has the degree of
Doctor of Science from Harvard.
He was given the Sheldon Traveling
Fellowship at Harvard and visited
the Solomon and Fiji Islands, Aus
tralia and New Zealand, collecting
specimens and data. Another of
his expeditions, was to Brazil for
Stanford University. m
, Dr. Mann has been on scientific
expeditions to Cuba, Haiti, Mexico,
ffJomhio- and mother-parts -of -Central
and South America. In 1914
he went to Egypt and the Sudan,
the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine and
Arabia with Dr. John C Phillips,
collecting specimens of animals and
birds. Later be . was in charge of
the Mulford Expedition to the
Amazon Valley in South America
to collect and study plants. His
most recent work in the field has
been for the Department of Agri
culture, which sent him during the
last five or six years into many
countries, InHndmg Mexico, Colom
bia and Spain, on entomological ex
peditions. Dr. Mann is an accom
plished linguist, speaking besides
the European languages, Arabic,
Swahili, and the dialects of the
Fiji tribes. "
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In discussing the object of the
Smithsonian - Chrysler Expedition,
Dr. Mann said: We intend to
gather a representative collection
of live African animals, birds, and
reptiles for the Net tonal Zoological
Park. The African fauna is mea
gerly represented In the Zoo, and
Tanganyika has been selected as the
most attractive region of all Afriea
. for . the securing of quantities of
special species of the more import
ant game animals
There are about forty species of
protected game in Tanganyika Ter
ritory and of course a host of other
animals that are not protected.
Among the most desirable species
to collect are the giraffe, no speci
mens of which have ever been ex
hibited in the National Zoo, the
black two-horned rhinoceros (only
one poor specimen- of which has. ever ,
been in our collection) and the white
rhinoceros. A quantity of antelope.
Including the sable antelope, the
- fringe-eared oryx, the topi, the
hart ebeesV the bushbuek, the kudu,
various feedbacks, duikers, pygmy
antelope, Impalla, oribi, as well as
other antelopes and gazelles. , The
sebra is common in that country,
but there Is at present no specimen
of sebra in the National Zoo.
Rmt Monkey Sonzkt
' Among the monkeys the Colo
bus or Gueresa, which exist in the
colony and are protected by the
game authorities, has never been ex
hibited In the Zoo, and it is expected
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to collect specimens of this as wellj
as the rarer Sykes monkey.
b- "In addition to these protected
animals, the expedition will attempt i
to capture lions, new blood of which !
is badly needed in the Park leo-j
pards, hunting dog (seldom seen in
captivity), various forms of wild
hogs ; the curious aardvark, aard
wolves, hyaenas, and numerous
species of the cats including the
rarer caracul, the hunting leopard,
and the cervaL
"Returning to antelope, the eland,
the finest of African game animals,
is' represented in the Zoo ohly by
an aged cow, remaining from a pair
presented to the Park by the Duke
of Bedford. This species of animal
has been successfully propagated
in England, and it is hoped to es
tablish a breeding herd In the Park.
"Birds to be sought will include
varieties of parrots and parrakeets,
the giant ground hornbfll, the fish
eagle, the secretary bird (snake
killer), and the brilliant plantain
eaters, sua birds, and a selection of
the various species of vultures. It
is hoped that a large collection of
the smaller brQIiaaJt colored finches
and tailor-birds can" be secured in
cluding the paradise whydah, whose
body is scarcely larger than a can
ary, but whose tail is eight or ten
inches long.
There is almost no limit as to what
may be found. There is the curious
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armor plated pangolin,"" the
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potto lemur, various squirrels, the
by-rax (the coney of the Bible),
smaller than a rabbit, yet the clos
est relation to the elephant; flying
mice, elephant shrews, many kinds'
of monkeys and the civet cat. ,
P "Among the reptiles are half &
dozen species of tortoises including
the giant leopard tortoise, which
grows to a weight of nearly one
hundred pounds, giant pythons,
spitting cobras, puff adders, black
mambas, boo nasi an gs, the monitor
lizard (which ravages the nests of
crocodiles and eats their eggs) and
various common forms of chame
leons. To Uh Box Traps
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"Box traps will be made. A drive
will be undertaken where hundreds
of natives will herd young snimali
in a stockade. To collect the sav
age rhinoceros, it may be necessary
to locate a mother with young.
Wherever possible, we shall avoid
killing, as this is distinctly a live
expedition and hot a big
game hunting one. Such animals
. as it may be necessary to kill on a
trip of tills kind wOl be. preserved.
When the commoner game, espec-
' tally antelopes, are shot, the meat
will be used as food for the expedi
tion and food for the carnivorous
animals which have been captured.
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In all cases the skins and skulls of
these will be preserved as scientific
specimens.
The expedition must guard
against malaria (jungle fever),
amoebic dysentery, typhoid, the
dreaded sleeping sickness, as well
as the various sores and ulcers and
the terrible flies which are so preva
lent in the tropics. The lions and
the leopards in some parts are so
abundant that the Government office
gives a reward for each one killed.
There are a dozen reptiles whose
bite is almost certain death. There
are also-scorpions she inches long,
and centipedes up to a foot. Tsetse
flies, ticks by the billions, and
germ-carrying mosquitoes, abound.
"Our expedition will go in more
for quality than quantity, and we
hope to bring back the finest speci
mens possible of the species.
"As all members of the party are
field naturalists, it is expected, that
great quantities of scientific -material
will be brought out, including
of course, many hitherto unknown
species, especially among the
smaller animals."
It Is an interesting fact that the
National Zoo was founded by Pro
fessor Samuel Pierpont Langtey.
third Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, who is chiefly known
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today for ihis . fundamental , re
searches and experiments in , avia
tion, experiments which pointed
the way to modern world-wide fly
ing. In the 'late eighties. Professor -Langley
realized the educational
advantages that would result' from
having a collection of living animate
accessible to the student and as an
incentive -to fetudy for the younger
generation. He; therefore, created
in the Smithsonian Institution a
Department of Living Animals. V
These animals -.were 'housed in
small enclosures erected In the rear
of the present Smithsonian' building
on The Malt - The collection grew
rapidly In numbers both by, dona
tions , and purchase . The care of
these animals became such a burden
upon the limited funds of the Insti
tution, which depends upon a meager
income of '$5,000 a year from- pri
vate endowments, that Professor
Langley - appealed to Congress - to
take . over tbe - embryo zoo. It Is
curious that a few members of Con
gress opposed the .- plan on ' the
ground that! if the" Federal Gov
ernment was going into the "show
business'" in competition with ."the
- greatest show on earth," it should
make it a traveling show.
in the Union.
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