And she said, yes. She said, getting into Davis or getting into graduate school and into her field of study. She, she said, the fact that I had publications that were done as an undergraduate student really helped. So, you know, getting the capers involved in research had some payback… Read More
I said, did that help you at all in your career?… Read More
And I, and she said, you told me that if you’re really serious about learning or working with African mammals, go to Africa, you know, get the airfare, go to Africa and meet the people who are working with them. Don’t try and do it by the mail. And that… Read More
I thought, well, there’s somebody that didn’t take much of my time, but I gave her good advice. So that was a good feeling. And I’ve had a number of people come and tell me that. And I asked Kate Sc, who, who was an Antioch student at the Bronx… Read More
Mainly by my family as a guy who introduced them to wildlife and, and gave them an appreciation of the things that I’ve appreciated and enjoyed. I think that’s there. I think I left some good feelings in the minds of some people that I worked with. I always answered… Read More
I mean, how would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More
The parada deer is saved because of those efforts. So you can’t take that away from them. Can’t take that credit away from them. But, you know, even in, there’s instability even in, in municipal and state and federal, in institutions too, they can change. So there’s no guarantee that… Read More
So what do you know about this profession that you have devoted so many years of your life you didn’t know about it?… Read More
Well, I know a slight, the slice of it, the slice of the profess profess profession that I lived myself. But I don’t have any kind of a holistic view of what it’s like. I think it was a gratifying profession. I got to ma my interest was working with… Read More
What do you think is their place within the zoo community?… Read More
Yeah, probably not. I think their a relatively short-lived phenomenon because their own longevity is going to define how long they last. In some cases, you may be able to pass it down to another, you may be able to develop a dynasty that keeps it going for several generations. Read More
Do you think they’re gonna survive the length of time that a municipal zoo does?… Read More
If you have a lot of money and you wanna have a zoo, you can have a zoo. There’s a way to do it. And, but they need to be held accountable for how they do it and that they do it correctly. Now there, you, you lead into the… Read More
In some, in some instances they do. It depends on their background and the resources they have. But they have to be, I think if they’re going to exist, they have to be regulated. Bad word, but yeah, they need to be accredited and shown that they have the wherewithal… Read More
Well, it’s been politicized. Environmental education is political because the other side doesn’t believe in it. So that’s gonna be an ongoing battle, I think, you know, I never thought it was, we, we gave environmental, we hosted environmental education courses at the center. We had those guys there and… Read More
It’s really interesting seeing what, what they were doing and the, the inventive methods that were being used in schools and beyond, you know, secondary schools, primary schools and that sort of thing. So Do you think private breeders have a place within the zoo community?… Read More
He was up at Yale, I can’t remember his last name. He did a lot of studies of zoo visitors and how they sort out what they know and what they don’t know and that sort of thing. And I think, you know, since times change wouldn’t hurt to do… Read More
So they wanna protect environments and conserve natural resources. This was on national television. I couldn’t believe it. Read More
I thought, what’s wrong with this?… Read More
And that’s one way to get across. There’s gonna be a certain, you know, there needs to be studies done of this, you know, zoo visitors. And I know there have been studies done on this, you know, a lot of stuff. Read More