The Cook County herald., 1904-06-04
ANIMALS UNCAUGHT.., ].
Some Kinds Of Beasts That Have
Never Been Gagged.

Eoos intensely Eager to SECURE spesz-
mems of Certain Newly-DisooS-
cred Creatures of Foreign
Climes.
"oh. there are q good many ami
mails that are still to be caught and
exhibited In the menagenes; said the
old animal man. according to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. reaching into the
cage and. scratching the head Of a
jeguar. Il can run of quite "a list
without stopping to think.
"All the zoos are crazy now for an
okapl. That's the strange prehis-
toric beast that Sir Harry Johnston
found alive in Eastern Africa It's
a cross between giraffe and horse,
apparently, and mighty big animal.
Therell be big money for the circus
that gets the first example, and there
are some plucl1y and smart men in
Uganda at this very moment looking
for the brute.
Nobody has been lucky enough or
smart enough to catch a Kadiak
bear alive and carry him to civiliza-
tion. There's something like beast
for you-big as calf, SO that he'd
make a roaring Rocky mountain
grizzly look like a little brown bear
alongside Of him.
Down in South America, some
where btA.nd the northeastern side OF
the Andes, a little north Of the
equator, is a beast that is the big
gest rodent In the world. Travellers
have seen pieces Of it's hide and its
bones, and a few have glimpsed 1t az
1t sped through the dark primeval for
ests. 1t is true rodent like the rat,
but 1t is as big as a Newfoundland
dog. That would be good catch for
a geological garden.
Another fine prize is down there
In South America. 1t Is a new species
of jaguar,' quite different from any
that has ever been exhibited in the
shows in any part Of the world. It's
\ big black fellow, and tremendously
fierce. Nobody has ever taken one
alive.
Then in the forests of the Amazon
are two birds that would make their
captor a famous man among zoolo-
g1sts. They are the bell bird, which
has voice exactly like a clear, ring
ing bell, and the Lost Soul which
has cry that makes the shivers creep
along mans backbone when he hears
1t in those dark, mysterious, silent.
forbidding woods.
In Burmah somewhere is a rhi-
noceros that has black hide and big
tufted ears. The hide has been seen
by white men lots OF times, but they
haven't ever seen living animal
up in the Himalayas a man has
been looking for years for-what do
you suppose? A unicorn. He may
be crazy-he may be right He says
that he has heard 80 many tales from
the native hunters up there of the ex-
1stence OF oae-horned antelope
horse that he is bound to try and get
one. I don't think there is any such
thing myself, but then didn't take
much stock In the discovery of a
primitive wild horse in Central Asia,
either, and now the geological gardens
of Hamburg and New York both have
living specimens of these horses
funny. big-headed little brutes that
are representatives OF some type OF
horse that must be hundreds of thou
sands OF Years old.
Down in New Zealand, compare
lively small as the land is, there are
many animal and bird mysteries still.
They say that there is a brand new
that is, new to the world-type OF ami
NAL on the order of the duck bill
down there yet. Darwin always
thought that some day a veritable liz
ard-bird (not a flying lizard, but true
missing link between the birds and
the reptiles) might be found there.
"One explorer followed mysterious
footprints in the snow of the high
mountains of New Zealand, but never
came up with the beast that had made
it. But they were such strange foot
prints that other scientists agreed
with him that the thing that made
them was quite unknown to the world,
and must be wonderful thing.
$50, you see, there Is plenty of work
still for US wild animal catchers. We
haven't seen everything that there Is
to be seen, by long shot,
Early Gold Stampede.