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Fortnight ago their dogs held a jaguar at bay on the far side of a river. Animal catchers Alexander Siemel and David Newell started to wade to the dogs. An alligator seized Siemel's foot, lacerating it so badly that, though he insisted on finishing that hunt, he had to be shipped by dugout to the nearest hospital, 250 miles away at Corumba. Last week he was reported improving, should rejoin the expedition this week...
Meantime, Newell and an Indian tried to capture a large Anaconda boa constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...
South American jungles contain no professional animal catchers. Zoomen have to send hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
...Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...
Besides catching animals, Perfilieff, Siemel & Newell propose to broadcast the jungle's noises, by day and night, to civilization. U. S. citizens who hear these programs may later see some of the animal performers, not only in cinema but in the flesh. For interested observers of the expedition's success are the planners of the Chicago Fair. Under the presidency of John Tinney McCutcheon, big-game-hunting cartoonist, "the most complete zoo in the country" is being assembled. Hunter Siemel & friends will have a ready market in Chicago for all the jaguars, tapirs, giant armadillos, anteaters, puma, ocelots...