The sun., 1903-12-20
WILD BEASTS NOT YET CAUGHT
PRIZES THAT SHOWMEN WOULD
PAY Rig SUMS FOR.
Animals and Birds known to Exist In Re-
mote Parts OF the World, but Not Yet
Exhibited In Any ZOO-A Rodent as Big
as Newfoundland DOG Among Them.

Animals and Birds known TO Exist In Re-
mote Parts OF the World, but Not Yet
Exhibited In Any ZOO-A Rodent as Big
as q Newfoundland Dog Among Them.
"Oh, there are good many animals
that are still to be caught and exhibited
in the menageries,' said the old animal
man, reaching into the cage and scratching
the head of a jaguar Il can run of quite
list without stopping to think.
"All the zoos are eager now for an okapi
That's the strange prehistoric beast that
Sir Harry Johnston found alive In eastern
Africa
"Its a cross between giraffe and horse
apparently. and mighty big animal
There1l be big money for the circus that
gets the first specimen, and there are some
plucky and smart men in Uganda at this
very moment looking for the brute.
Nobody has been lucky enough or
smart enough to catch Kadiak bear alive
and carry him to civilization. There s
something like beast for you-big as calf
30 that he'd make roaring Rocky Noun
tain grizzly look like little brown bear
alongside Of him.
down in South America, somewhe re
behind the northeastern side of the Andes
a little north of the equator, is beast
that is the biggest rodent in the world.
Travellers have seen pieces Of it's hide and
its bones, and few have glimpsed it as it
sped through the dark prmeval forests.
at is a true rodent like the rat, but it is
as big as a Newfoundland dog. That would
be a good catch for geological garden.
Another fine prize is down there in South
x.g
quite different from any that has ever been
exhibited in the shows in any part of the
world. It's big, black fellow, and tre-
mendously fierce Nobody has ever taken
one alive.
Then in the forests of the Amazon are
two birds that would make their captor
famous man among biologists. They
are the bell bird, which has Voice exactly
like clear ringing bell and the -lost soul, p"
which has a cry that makes the shivers
creep along mans backbone when he
hears it i'll those dark, mysterious. silent,
forbldding woods.
In Burlnah somewhere is rhinoceros
that has a black hide and big tufted ears.
The hide has been seen by white men lots
of times, but they haven't ever seen liv-
ing animal.
"Up in the Himalayas a man has been
looking for years for--what do you sup
posc "A ullCoIH' Ilc may NC SIdZy--llc
may be right.
-He says that he has heard 80 many tales
from the native hunters up there of the
existence Of u one-horned antelope-horse
that he is bound to try and get one. |
don't think there is any such thing, myself,
but then l didn't take much stock in the
discovery of primitive wild horse in Central
Asia, either. and now the geological gar
dens of Hamburg and New York have
living specimens of these horses-funny
big-headed little brutes that are repre-
sentatives of some type Of horse that must
be hundreds of thousands of years old.
Down in New Zealand, comparatively
small as the land is, there are many animal
and bird mysteries still They say that
there is a brand new-that IL, new to the
world-.type Of animal on the order of the
duck bill down there yet. Darwin always
thought that some day a veritable lizard
bird mot flying lizard, but q true miss
ing link between the birds and the reptiles)
might be found there.
Zone explorer followed mysterious foot
prints in the snow OF the high mountains
Of New Zealand, hut never came up with
the beast that had made them. But they
were such strange footprints that other
scientists agreed with him that the thing
that made them was quite unknown to
the world, and miist be wonderful being.
$50, you see, there is plent Of work
still for 'ls wild animal cat chers. We
haven't seen everything that there is to
be seen, by q long shot