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Americas to Swap
Zoo Animals
Dr. Mann Sails Friday
With Cargo of
Specimens
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Latest Ambassador of Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy with South America is Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Zoo, who leaves Washington this week for Argentina to swap North American zoological neighbors with those from South America.
Carefully ensconced in the S. S. Uruguay when Dr. Mann sails from New York on Friday will be a pair of buffalo, several civet cats, an assortment of raccoons, a batch of coyotes, a mixture of North American Prairie dogs, and one bald eagle-symbol of American democracy.
None of these animals is found among the animal neighbors of South America, and with them Dr. Mann, known as the greatest animal trader in the Western Hemisphere, expects to do a brisk business.
He is already in touch with the directors of the zoos at Buenos Aires and Rosario, where a pair of large, brown-eyed lamas are reported to be ready to do the Good Neighbor act and swap places with the National Zoological Park buffalo. The zoo is Rosario is also anxious to get a couple of Dr. Mann's prairie wolves.
Accompanying Dr. and Mrs. Mann on the trip, although not in an official capacity, will be Dr. John H. Gray, of Washington, former Harvard economist, who at the age of 80 is one of the world's premier hikers. Last year he took a walking trip through the Balkans, and may take another such expedition through part of Argentina.
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Y, April 5, 1939
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Dr. Mann in Swapping Mood
[[image: Photograph of llama, black around eyes and knees]]
[[image: American Bald Eagle]]
Zoo Director Dr. William M. Mann leaves this week for the tranquil purlieus of South American to trade superfluities for rarities. This bald eagle, for instance, will be bartered for what the genial doctor can get. The llama stays here and possibly may get a pair of companions. Dr. Mann has his heart set on two more llamas.
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Dr. Mann to Leave Friday
On South America Expedition
Bearing gifts for South American zoos, Dr. William M. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park, will sail for Brazil and Argentina from New York Friday night to collect birds, reptiles and animals.
Dr. Mann is taking along two yearling American buffalos, several civet cats from the East Indies, and an assortment of coyotes, North American prairie dogs, raccoons and at least one American bald eagle.
The scientist plans to present these specimens to zoos in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and other South American cities. If the South Americans reciprocate, Dr. Mann will be more than happy to bring back some gift additions to the local Zoo.
Dr. Mann, for some months past has been in correspondence with zoo directors and animal dealers in South America. On his way south he will stop briefly in Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Montevideo to make plans for getting specimens together which he will pick up on the return journey.
Trip Into Interior Planned.
The Zoo director and his party, which included Mrs. Mann, veteran of several previous expeditions, and Dr. John H. Gray of Washington, retired Harvard economist, probably will spend more than a month in Argentina.
Dr. Mann expects to take a railroad trip into the interior of Argentina, in the direction of the lake region.
He may even get as far south as Northern Patagonia. The party will sail in the American Republic Line steamship Uruguay, and probably will return about the middle of June.
Dr. Mann has made many previous trips to South America on scientific missions. On one trip he crossed the Andes from the Pacific side and came down a tributary to the Amazon, crossing the continent on the latter river.
Looks Forward to Argentina.
He has never been to the Argentine, however, and looks forward with keen enthusiasm to making new friends in this part of Latin America.
Dr. Mann's last expedition was to the East Indies, from which he returned in the fall of 1937 with more than 1,000 rare animals, birds and reptiles. Last summer he took a vacation trip to Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, France and England.
Although he was on vacation, he kept right on working for the Washington Zoo, arranging swaps, making friends and meeting animal dealers. As a result, he was able to exchange specimens common here for species hard to obtain in the United States.
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