Auf Großtierfang für Hagenbeck

The account recounts extended fieldwork in East Africa devoted to capturing large wild animals for zoological collections, describing practical techniques, logistics of transport, and daily life in the bush. Travel across riverine and savanna regions, including operations to entrap giraffes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, zebras, ostriches, antelopes, and predators, is narrated alongside challenges of disease, climate, and difficult terrain. Interspersed are observational notes on species behavior, distribution, and captivity, together with reflections on animal handling, breeding farms, and the practical and ethical effects of capture and transport.