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- Mr. Ripley DATE: Uune 24, 1969 
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Bongo 
Attached are two photographs of the 400 pound, three quarters 
grown male bongo which was captured by Tony Parkinson on 
May 20 in the Aberdare Mountains. Interestingly enough, it 
was caught in the first trap which I helped to build. 
Tony reports that the animal is doing well and has gentled 
down quite a bit and is more responsive to humans. Apparently, 
this is the nature of the animal--once they are captured, they 
revert from being one of the wildest to one of the tamest 
animals. 
The next problem is getting it down from the mountains into 
quarantine and then delivered to the Zoo. There is also a 
slight problem of getting two females to go with the male. 
However, we will take one step at a time. 
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