I think it can. I think it’s time because there are now so many problems, so many challenges in attempting to preserve wildlife for zoos to have exhibits and theaters addressing these problems, explaining the science, setting forth the alternatives, the options that we have as human beings who run… Read More
I don’t think anybody is. That’s another challenge, a wonderful challenge. Read More
Zoos in general, plays a great deal of emphasis upon the education of children, which is fine and necessary and very important. There is one group that they have not place sufficient emphasis upon. These are decision-makers. No zoo that I ever heard of built exhibits or interpretive displays that… Read More
Could this be done?… Read More
I wish I could do it. I wish I was younger. There are so many different types of people who come to the zoo and we wanna reach many different stakeholders if you will, or groups of people, but some are a little more difficult. How can zoos improve, if… Read More
How do we reach those kinds of audiences?… Read More
I think the answers to those problems are enormously exciting. And I think we know how to do it. One of the answers is that all of the animals we work with in specialized collection should be animals that require or would profit from propagation. And the propagation of those… Read More
We need to show how their lives work. We need to show the meaning of ecology. We need to show how it relates to people. I don’t think there’s any problem. If one, for example were to devote a zoo to let’s say, let’s say a, 100 species and 75… Read More
How does a small or medium sized zoo become specialized?… Read More
How can it still projected enough diversity and excitement to bring in visitors?… Read More
And if it was just one animal or a group of animals from an ecosystem, how would that affect that small zoo?… Read More
Do you think they still have, or could you project the visitorship or how it would allow them to continue to be relevant to their community?… Read More
We talked about specialized zoos, the smaller zoos, the mid-size zoos, what exactly do you mean by the specialization?… Read More
What form would it take?… Read More
When I build my $45 million elephant exhibit– When you build it– with some of the money?… Read More
Should some of it be going– It should be going to the preservation of elephants in the various, and there are many organizations working on the problem, including WCS, the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo that has one of the better programs and they can help you with… Read More
And visitors could touch, could look through the maps, decide whether they wanted to buy shoes and radios for wardens or help purchase a new piece of land to enlarge a park or whatever and touch it and the money would go there. And that was in 1999, June of… Read More
No, no. Read More
We won’t win, we won’t save to the elephant, Can the zoo in Sheboygan contribute to that problem in Africa or Ceylon, Sri Lanka nowadays?… Read More
I think they can, but only if they do it right and do it beyond most of what has been done. The Leipzig Zoo has just opened a huge magnificent exhibit, not for elephants, it’s called Gondwanaland. It costs 66 million euros. That’s real money, and they are trying to… Read More