Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 10
How can you make intelligent decisions in a democracy if you can’t understand that two plus two makes four?… Read More
How can you make intelligent decisions in a democracy if you can’t understand that two plus two makes four?… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these type of people that don’t have the same mindset?… Read More
My personal experience in dealing with animal rights, people who are anti zoo, and of course not all animal rights people are anti zoo, but my experience has been that one must attempt to involve them, to educate them. We’re dealing with some very, very difficult questions. If, for example,… Read More
Zoos in many cases today– Is that your phone?… Read More
(man clears throat) Today in many cases, zoos are afraid to confront wildlife animal rights groups, animal welfare groups that seem to be against zoos and maintaining animals in captivity. Many times, some people in authority or who are managing the zoos, seem afraid to deal with this. Read More
How do they help?… Read More
If you are with a small zoo, you can make a major contribution, even though you are limited in what you can breed or exhibit in the zoo. Because you can help build constituency. If we don’t build a constituency for wildlife, all the efforts we make to propagate it… Read More
Now, if you’re a small. Don’t worry about looking at camera, you can go ahead and talk to Mark. Okay. Read More
What can a small, you are a very large organization, what can a small or medium-sized municipal zoo do today to get involved in this wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally?… Read More
When I started in the zoo profession, it was a different world. Getting animals for a zoo was not a problem, not a necessary skillset. Knowing something about the global situation of wild animals was really not part of the skillset. If you’re going to be a zoo director in… Read More
Somebody who doesn’t, I don’t take shit off of anybody, and I don’t think I ever did. And I survived. I want to be remembered as somebody who took over a weak institution and I helped build it into something that’s world-class and was gonna be remembered. That’s the greatest… Read More
What do I know about the profession. I’ll comment on the people I know, I think zoos and aquariums have got a cadre of the most dedicated people in any professional. Well, you know, doctors are dedicated and so forth, but outside of the medical profession, I think we just… Read More
I don’t think you see that kind of dedication and even let’s say medical professional help me. I don’t know how many doctors I see crying over a lost patient. How do you wanna be remembered. Read More
As a crusty old man?… Read More
Do you want me to describe the style of architecture?… Read More
I think today, more than ever, aquariums are being designed for form follows function. And I know I’ve said that before about Shedd Aquarium, but to look at Shedd’s exterior appearance, you wouldn’t think it was designed like that, but it was. Today, I think more and more aquariums and… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
What do you know if someone else asks you?… Read More
The aquarium has in the past had temporary exhibits such as this seahorses and frogs, is that something that has had a big impact on the public, and will continue to be a direction that aquariums will wanna take?… Read More
Oh sure, there was an example of something non-aquatic in that special exhibit where we had the big monster from Komodo dragon. We exhibited that. Sure it’s a reptile, and we’ve had other reptiles on exhibit, but that probably was sort of the farthest from what you would consider to… Read More