152 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
becomes so tangled that it cannot move an inch. 
Its cries bring the men who have been posted as 
lookouts, and they carry it back to the kampong 
on poles. 
Contrary to the general idea, cat animals, such 
as tigers and leopards, are the easiest to catch in 
traps as well as nets. The work is as simple as 
baiting a rat-trap and it requires little sagacity. A 
box-trap with a spring-door will make a catch time 
after time, with no more trouble than transferring 
the animal to a transportation cage and rebaiting 
the trap with a chicken or a small goat. It is wise 
to allow a fairly long runway between door and 
bait so that the captive will not be injured when 
the door springs shut. After recovering from the 
surprise of finding itself trapped, the animal eats 
the bait, which supplies it with food until the natives 
come along on their regular tours of inspection. It 
is just routine work, involving but little excitement. 
Among the animals we captured while working 
from Omar’s kampong were three gibbons, or wah- 
wahs. These are also known as flying gibbons, be- 
cause they make such long leaps from tree to tree. 
They are a tailless breed of monkey, rather rare 
and extremely difficult to catch. Once captured, 
they become affectionate pets and they command a 
good price for that reason. They have soft, downy, 
light brown, silver-gray or yellow hair, black faces 
and large, round, expressive eyes. 
The work of trapping and snaring went along 
