ATTACHMENT C 
Qualifications of Assistants 
The $20,000 will be in payment to Mr. John Seago, an 
animal dealer from Nairobi, Kenya, and will compensate him 
for the outlined study, the outfitting and conduct of the 
expedition from Nairobi to the Aberdare Mountains, and the 
incurred expenses of shipping three Bongos to the "National 
Zoological Park in Washington, D. C. 
My first association with Mr. Seago was in 1956 when he 
captured and sent to our Zoo the first pair of Square-lipped 
White Rhinoceros ever exhibited in North America. My last 
was when I visited his excellent facilities in Kenya during 
November, 1967. I can attest to his expertise and his 
qualifications without reservations. Mr. James Fisher speaks 
highly of Nin. an-his-1967: poubpiication Zoos of ‘the World (op. 
as follows: 
“John Seago and his partner Anthony Parkinson are 
Englishmen who operate from Nairobi in Kenya. They 
work only on orders from zoological gardens and similar 
institutions or from wild nature reserves; and they 
are the very antithesis of the old bring-'em-back-alive 
operators. As Seago himself writes: 'The man to whom 
the supposed glamour of the job is the main appeal 
may not be at all ideal.'"' But although Seago's team 
approach their jobs ina quiet and unspectacular way, 
collLetting a@ white yhinoe 16 stril aujob of some 
dimensions. Male square-lipped rhinos often weigh three 
tons and sometimes up to four. Not<all of them are 
captured when adult, but it needs a first-class team of 
highly experienced field men to catch a white rhino of 
142-145) 
any age at no risk to human life--and no risk to rhino life. 
"Seago's field team, heavily motorized, usually includes 
SO AfTicans of several different tribes, trained to work 
well not only with the animals but also with each other. 
"The degree of nervous tension suffered by newly caught 
animals is not always appreciated," he writes. "It is 
here that ‘the qwWiet, confident stocknan £5 <s6: important..." 
Seago has trained his own men to be quiet and confident, 
and as a result he has a very low mortality rate among 
the animals he catches. His team is at once tender and 
tough; it .15 in the kind of business where it has to be, 
Unlike many big- game catchers, Seago does not use drug- 
darts. His main technique with rhinos and other large 
ungulates involves the use of stockades or corrals, combined 
with very clever, very gentle driving. Always he works 
with the game wardens from whom he gets the licence to 
trap; always he works within the law. As a conservationist 
hé 26 far ahead of many anti-dealer people I could name." 
