Legendary big game hunter Frank Buck hunts for zoo specimens in Malaya.

This documentary is a chronicle of an animal-trapping expedition made by Frank Buck into the jungles of Malaya, Sumatra, Ceylon and Northern India. After attending a "Tooth of Buddha" celebration in the Ceylonese city of Kandy, Buck and his native workers travel into the Salan jungle and, using tamed elephants and a custom-built corral, capture two wild elephants. Buck then moves deeper into the wilds and traps several golden gibbons and a king cobra. After capturing an elusive Malayan tapir, Buck witnesses a fight-to-the-death encounter between a python and a black leopard. With a net and a rope, Buck traps the victorious python and takes him back to his jungle camp. Buck next grabs two baby leopard cubs and catches several "Dracula" bats using nets attached to bamboo poles. In Southern Malaysia, Buck snags a cassowary bird, then bags a rare leopard. Alerted by a local tribal leader, Buck locates a rare white water buffalo, which he captures after the buffalo herd is stampeded into another corral. "Spectacled" monkeys are tricked and caught with a rice-in-a-coconut trap. Near a village, Buck captures a "man-eating" tiger in a camouflaged pit and carries him off to serve his "life sentence" in an American zoo. After crossing the Straits of Malacca into Northern Sumatra, Buck and his men use a baited trap to ensare a large male orangutan. While breaking apart native-set mouse deer traps, Buck encounters an enormous python, which attacks his arm. With his free hand, Buck shoots and kills the python, then finds a nest of black leopard cubs. Buck concludes his expedition by capturing a rhinoceros, which falls into an abandoned springhole after being chased by his helpers.