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in the Zoo June 27, 1939) is still living. A salt-water crocodile 

 {Crocodyhis porosus), purchased July 12, 1932, when about 8 years 

 old, is still living and is believed to be the largest in captivity. 



COOPERATION 



At all times special efforts are made to maintain friendly contacts 

 with other Federal and State agencies, private concerns and indi- 

 viduals, and scientific workers for mutual assistance. As a result, the 

 Zoo receives much help and advice and many valuable animals, and 

 in turn it furnishes information and, whenever possible, animals it 

 does not need. 



In cooperation with the State Department and the White House, 

 the National Zoological Park arranged for the fulfillment of Presi- 

 dent Eisenhower's promise to General DeGaulle to send him three 

 pronghom antelopes for the Paris Zoo. The antelopes selected had 

 been in the collection here and were thus accustomed to captivity. 

 They had originally come from the State Fish and Game Department 

 of Montana, which will send replacements to the National Zoological 

 Park. The pronghorns, the only ones in any European zoo, were 

 flown from Andrews Air Force Base on August 2, 1960, on an Air 

 Force C-130 cargo plane. Lt. Col. Perry Penn, 62d Squadron com- 

 mander, and Capt. Donald Gould, aircraft commander, were in 

 charge, and the Director of the Zoo accompanied the shipment. All 

 arrangements were made at the request of President Eisenhower. In 

 addition, the plane carried two Virginia deer fawns and an assortment 

 of small mammals, birds, and reptiles. The plane stopped at Prest- 

 wick, Scotland, and unloaded there two bear cubs, birds, and alli- 

 gators for the zoos in Edinburgh and Bristol, before continuing on to 

 Orly Field in France. 



Through the cooperation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Senior Keeper William Widman made a number of collecting trips on 

 Chesapeake Bay to secure w^aterfowl for the Zoo. 



Special acknowledgment is due George Kirk and John Pulaski, in 

 the office of the U.S. Dispatch Agent in New York City, and Stephen 

 E. Lato, Dispatch Agent in San Francisco, who are frequently called 

 upon to clear shipments of animals coming from abroad, often at 

 great personal inconvenience. The animals have been forwarded to 

 Washington without the loss of a single individual. 



Wlien it is necessary to quarantine animals coming into this country, 

 they are taken to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's station in 

 Clifton, N.J. During the past year Dr. B. C. Swindell and Andy 

 Goodel, two of the officials stationed there, have been most cooperative 



