Text extracted from opening pages of book: BY FRANK BUCK AND EDWARD
ANTHONY ALI PUBLISHERS GROSSET e> BUJYLAP, INC. NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY FRANK BUCK AND EDWARD ANTHONY BY ARRANGF. MKNT
WITH SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE U.
S. A. CONTENTS PAGE To Begin With ........ . . . . 3 CHAPTER I.
Tapir on a Rampage ...... 7 II. Giant Jungle Man ....... 18 III.
Tiger Revenge ........ 32 IV. Wanted: Two Rhinos ...... 48 V.
Delivered: Two Rhinos ...... 61 VI. Jungle Laundress ....... 91
VII. Holter's Traps ........ 101 VIIL Chips Lends a Hand ...... 119
IX. Man-Eater ........ 130 X. Baby Boo ......... 161 XL Monkey
Mothers ....... 173 XII. Ghost of Katong ....... 189 XIII. Elephant
Temper ...... .200 XIV. Monkey Mischief ....... 221 XV. Loose on
Board . . 2 XVI. Mouse-Deer . . W>. . . 6 . _--____, -, * XVIIL
Eang Cobra ........ 272 Finally ............. 28S BRING' E3M BACK
ALIVE TO BEGIN WITH . . . It might be well to state at the outset
that my aim is not to write a book that will add one more volume to
the world 9 s col lection of natural histories or the existing
treatises on the habits of wild animals. Whatever I have to say
about the peculiarities of different species is incidental to my
adventures in the field of collecting. For eighteen exciting years
I have been gathering live animals, reptiles and birds for the
zoos, the circuses and the dealers. I have brought back to America
thousands of specimens, A great many of these were collected for
the New York Zoological Park, the Philadelphia Zoological Garden,
the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, the St. Louis Zoological Gardens,
the Dallas Zoo, the San Diego Zoological Park, the Milwaukee Zoo
and the smallerzoos located in Memphis, Kansas City, San Antonio,
Minneapolis and other cities. Many others were absorbed by the
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Al G. Barnes Wild
Animal Show, the Sells-Floto Circus, the Christy Brothers drew, the
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and other similar organizations. A good
percentage of these specimens were sold direct to the zoo
authorities and circus owners, the rest through dealers. I have had
more than my share of thrills, including narrow escapes. Yet I am
frank to say that these close calls do not represent a love of
looking Death in the eye. I am not that kind of adventurer. I take
no unnecessary risks. When a man oper ates on as big a scale as I
do he doesn't have to look for trouble. No matter how careful one
is, something is bound to go wrong when live animals and reptiles
are handled wholesale. It is then that experience counts. When I
listed all the specimens with which I've returned to America since
I started bringing' em back alive I found myself wondering that I
hadn't had more anxious moments. There were plenty, as I have
indicated, but on the whole I consider my 4 BRING' EM BACK ALIVE
self lucky. So many live creatures, if they had tried real hard,
could have made much more trouble for me. Here's the list: 39
elephants; 60 tigers ( Royal Bengal, Mala yan and Manchurian); 28
spotted leopards; 20 black leopards; 10 clouded leopards; 4
Himalayan snow leopards; 20 hyenas; 52 orang-utans; 31 gibbon apes
( white-handed, silvery, agile, Hoolock's and siamang); over 5,000
monkeys of different varie ties; 20 tapirs; 120 Asiatic antelope
and deer, including black buck, nilgai antelope, Indian gazette,
axis deer, barking deer, hog deer, sambor, etc.; p anoas or pigmy
water buffalo; i sla dang or Malayan gaur; i babirussa ( rarest of
wttd swine}; 2 African cape buffalo; iS African antelope, including
sable, water buck and the rare white oryx of the Sudan; 2 giraffes;
40 wild goats and sheep, including Markhor goats, Barbary sheep,
Mala yan serow and Punjab sheep; n camels; 40 kangaroos and wal
labies; 2 Indian rhinoceros ( the rarest and most valuable wild
animals in America as this is written); 40 bears, including Mala
yan honey bears, Himalayan black bears and Indian sloth bears; pa
large pythons
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