| One sequence that was obviously unstaged and unrehearsed was the attempted capture of an armor-plated Indian rhinoceros calf. After Buck’s carefully-rehearsed plan to capture the calf in a huge net is shown going all awry, the little rhino goes on to capture himself by falling into an abandoned native well while trying to make its escape. |
Sunday, January 04, 2009
"Wild Cargo" #16
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That Indian rhino was captured by Buck in Nepal. He must have pulled some strings in order to get the Maharajah’s permission to collect there because it was more or less closed to outsiders back then.
Buck sold this rhino, a male, to the St. Louis zoo where it arrived on January 19, 1934. At the zoo it was named “Harry.” It died there on December 31, 1961.
I had a Classic comic book about Frank Buck when I was a kid. In it he was bringing a pair of Indian rhinos back to the U.S. One of them had a sort of a dent in it's horn where a local had tried to saw the horn off. I remember at the end Frank Buck was looking at one of the rhinos at whatever zoo he delivered it to, and said "I love you for all the trouble you caused." I don't know whether the story was friction. I remember in the course of it he had to pull a gun on somebody. Was'nt he the director of the San Diego Zoo for a while? I remember seeing a picture of him picking up a gigantic land crab. I think he provided a lot of specimens for museums as well as zoos, and there was a TV series based on his life.
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