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...other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...party was to be led by Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...
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