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“USUALLY I. take a couple of boys and we get out and hoof it through the woods,” he said. They keep working the thicket until they’ve flushed each animal. ‘‘But it’s hard to see a bongo, they weren’t even discovered until some time in the twentieth century.”
Slaughter makes his rounds of the park every day, kind of playing safari in the Blue Ridge, using a U.S. surplus jeep for his ‘‘land rover.” ‘‘The biggest part of this job is getting out of the jeep,” he says wryly. Each paddock is entered by at least a double set of chain link gates. So it’s drive up to the first gate, stop, get out and unlock, drive through, stop, lock behind you, unlock the next gate, drive through. . .That’s where the day goes...” But Slaughter says the biggest part of the job so far has been putting up the fencing. So far, there are more than four miles of chain link fencing eight feet high with a metal rail along the bottom. That’s for the larger paddock. The wolves, for instance, are contained in smaller yards. That fence is not only eight feet high with several strands of barbed wire along the top, but extends several feet into a ditch in the ground which is then filled with concrete. Slaughter and other zoo staff members are worried that indigenous, and one would assume non-endanger
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