Oh yes, but– Colonial animals are a very special opportunity for zoos and rarely exhibited as colonies. Imagine a big colony of Scarlet Ibises there used to be a colony of Scarlet Ibises, which was run by the Disney people down in Orlando. It was absolutely fabulous. It was out… Read More
People don’t know that they know each other until they’ve watch them. They can recognize the kinds of things that Konrad Lorenz taught us many years ago when he wrote “King Solomon’s Ring”. When he discovered that geese recognize each other by their faces, he played a dirty trick on… Read More
That is a very easy question to answer. I’d have done everything differently. I’ve learned so much over the years. My fellow staff members have been so tolerant of me. My trustees have been so helpful. All the animals I’ve known have been so wonderfully patient that I’ve learned a… Read More
Are there programs or exhibits that you would have implemented specifically during your tenure that did not happen?… Read More
Kind of a broad question within your zoo career, if you could go back in time a bit, what, if anything, would you have done different?… Read More
What would I have done differently?… Read More
And your second question was?… Read More
Do you believe that the animals in these reserves somehow need to work for a living to pay or to have people appreciate either the creation of jobs, as you said, constituency, so that they will be protected and relevant within that ecosystem with the people who are living in… Read More
Why in the world did I pick Patagonia as a place to study wildlife and initiate conservation programs?… Read More
It was an accident. One of our trustees, a famous New Yorker, Robert Goulet used to go there fishing and asked me if I would like to go. And I said, “Well, yes, but I understand that there’s a lot of wildlife there and I’ve never seen a movie on… Read More
Why did you pick Patagonia or what sparked you to wanna work there specifically?… Read More
And two, you’ve talked about the tourism. Read More
Do you believe that in many, if not all of these national parks, that the animals in some way have to work, or you use my words work for a living to be relevant so that people will want to keep them there, provide jobs in some way?… Read More
Why had to Patagonia?… Read More
There’s so many places I know you have interest in, or that you feel need help, that are large stretches of land that have great animals, that have constituencies associated. Read More
We discovered we had built a constituency. The local people storm the governor’s residence. He had to go out the back window, which I think was absolutely marvelous. And that was the end of the Hinode Penguin Company, but it was not the end of the penguins. And now they’re… Read More
This community is trying to preserve those penguins. That must happen with elephants. It’s damn difficult with tigers. Two questions. Read More
Tourism has become a major profession. It was non-existent when I started there, it’s really major now. But beyond tourism, the people themselves are involved with the wildlife. After we got Punta Tombo, which is now a famous penguin colony, the largest colony of penguins on any major continent in… Read More
We wrote people called and so on, what happened?… Read More
Here we are, that was in 1964, the latest count is 52,000, the elephant seals, the only continental colony of elephant seals in the world. We have now over a million penguins. The sea lions, which was over a quarter of a million sea lions had been killed on Peninsula… Read More