AKRON (Ohio), May 9.—(INS)— 
A Smitsonian Institution-Firestone 
expedition is traveling in Liberia 
in hopes of securing rare wild ani¬ 
mals and a complete collection of 
fauna. 
The expedition is sponsored by 
the Firestone Company, and is un¬ 
der the supervision of Dr. William 
M. Mann, director of the Nationalj 
Zoological Park in Washington,! 
Considerable time is to be spent on! 
the huge Firestone rubber plants-j 
tion. 
Among the animals which DrJ 
Mann is anxious to bring back to 
the National Zoo, a branch of the 
Smithsonian, are pigmy elephants, 
pigmy hippopotamuses, flying 
squirrels, and the larger servals 
which are distinguished by their 
; long legs and large tufted ears. 
Accompanying Dr. Mann is his 
;wife, Lucille Quarry Mann, also an 
fauthoritv on wild animal life. 
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Attacked by Ants 
WASHINGTON, May 11 (UP.)— 
Dr. William M. Mann, director of 
the National Zoological Park, re¬ 
ported today from the remote back 
country of Liberia that his porter 
train had suffered severe casual¬ 
ties in a night attack by a huge 
army of ferocious driver ants. 
Dr. Mann, leading an expedition 
into Liberian jungles in search of 
rare animals, birds and reptiles, 
radioed that hundreds of thousands 
of ants, one to two inches long, 
swept into the camp in perfect col¬ 
umns, swarmed over the Negro sen¬ 
tries, biting and stringing them 
seriously. 
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ZOOLOGY 
Strange Beast and Birds 
Sent Back from Liberia 
ZOOLOGY 
Rabbit-Sized Antelopes 
Headed for National Zoo 
W ITH a 700-pound pigmy hippo¬ 
potamus as star of the passenger 
list, a rare and distinguished gathering 
of West African jungle animals is taking 
ship in Liberia, scheduled to arrive at 
Norfolk, Virginia, about July 20. Ob¬ 
tained by Dr. William M. Mann, direc¬ 
tor of the National Zoological Park at 
Washington, the collection wifi show 
America some species or Liberia s wild 
life seldom seen outside that country. 
Included in the collection, which was 
obtained with aid of hundreds of natives, 
are antelopes no bigger than raboits, rare 
crocodiles, big and little parrots, ana sev¬ 
eral crates of monkeys. 
Qriflucf News Letter, Jwy ~0, 1940 
P IGMY hippopotamuses, a huge eagle 
that preys on jungle monkeys, an 
armored anteater and a group of monitor 
lizards are among the strange beasts and 
birds sent back from Liberia, on the west 
coast of Africa, by Dr. William M. 
Mann, leader of the Smithsonian-Fire- 
stone expedition. Not the first of refugees 
from Africa, it is hoped. 
Science News Letter, June 1, 1940 
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