Word: siemel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Hunting Brazilian tigers as practiced by Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill...
...Hunter Siemel's best dog, Valente, found 64 tigers, was killed by the 65th. Hunter Siemel has killed altogether 107 tigers, three or four each month for the last two years. Of these, 90 died from one bullet in the brain, 17 he impaled with spear or bayonet...