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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 16, 1965
THE BATTALION
Ph. D. Candidate Returns From Jungle Hunt
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AN AGOUTIS? SO’S YER OLD MAN!
Jerry Mankins holds a pet Agoutis for his son Dick to in
spect.
A Texas A&M Ph.D. candi
date earned the title “doctor” in
the jungles of Honduras by giv
ing emergency care to natives.
Jerry Mankins of Susanville,
Calif., recently returned from
eight months in South Africa
where wildlife research was in
terrupted to deliver babies, su
ture wounds and set broken bones.
Mankins became the “doctor”
after he helped deliver a baby in
the bush.
“The first time I helped de
liver a baby was pretty much an
emergency,” Mankins explained.
“I went to see a man to locate
some deer. He said his wife was
in severe pain, so I took a look
and found she was ready to give
birth. Her sister was supposed to
come to help, but she didn’t ar
rive, so I delivered the baby.
After that the word got around
that I was a doctor as well as a
batman,” Mankins continued.
Mankins had previous experi
ence as a hospital laboratory tech
nician in California, but had little
knowledge of obstetrics.
The language problem gave
Mankins little trouble since he
speaks Spanish, the accepted
language in Honduras. Finding
suitable transportation proved to
be a mapor problem since roads
were almost non-existant.
With the help of his 15-year old
son, Dick, Mankins collected spec
imens of agoutis, grison, prehen
sile-tailed porcupines, gophers,
o’possums, margay, squirrel, ant-
eaters and a specimen new to the
A&M collection, a 7-banded arma
dillo.
“We obtained what is probably
the largest collection of one spec
ies of agoutis (rabbit-like ani
mals) from Roatan,” Mankins re
ported.
The researchers were bitten and
scratched by bats and margay,
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but didn’t bother to take shots,
he said. “A dab of iodine here
and there and we were ready to
continue,” Mankins commented.
The Mankins learned to live off
the land. Agoutis were the main
meat dish and mangoes, bananas,
zapotes, and squash were plenti
ful. Sugar and coffee shortages
were apparent, they felt.
Heavy rains caused them to
spend a lot of time digging the
station wagon out of mudholes.
Storms blew their camps down.
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