They learned that I enjoyed working with animals and it looked like it was fun and it was exciting. And that’s one of the things that those kids went away with. It wasn’t all the knowledge and the things I was saying, it’s how I acted with the animals and… Read More
And it all came together, and now conversely, why don’t you tell me that story?… Read More
Were there any time when you said, “Oh, my gosh! I know I can work these animals, but look what they did on the show and you know animals being animals. Yeah, well, that’s a good question. I mean, I shouldn’t say that’s a good question. You’re asking… I mean… Read More
And guess what?… Read More
They did a survey and they found out that a lot of teachers were putting that on their curriculum to watch me on the Today Show in the morning where they’re in school. Read More
Well, you’ve got to learn how to have a job, but you also.. I mean, you get specialized in that area so you can have a job in research or whatever. There are wonderful field researchers out there, that are still studying our planet. And that’s very, very important. But… Read More
So what you do, you have to go through and be educated in that sense to learn the details, so you know how to put the big picture together. So then you can be a spokesperson. I wanted to kind of get back to one of the things we had… Read More
And I’ll tell you why this is important?… Read More
We now are having our national parks so crowded with motor homes and everything else. They’re limiting access to national parks. Well, in the community if you have a ecological park there as part of the community, that should play as an important role as a baseball game or a… Read More
Are there any suggestions for those aspiring that you would give them to make a difference in the natural world or the world of zoos that is trying to help the natural world?… Read More
How many spokespeople are there out there now?… Read More
You don’t know who the spokesperson is for World Wildlife Fund. And very few zoos have spokespeople, but you need to have people that are trained in learning how to speak. I’m just getting started, because I feel like… I am beginning to feel I have something to say. I’m… Read More
Why should we save elephants?… Read More
That’s a good point. To what extent do you continue to be active in the zoo field or the, I will say conservation field with the sustainable… Right. Consumption. Well, I’m getting a little long in the tooth. I’ve been around a while, but I’m just getting started. And one… Read More
Not talking about myself anymore, but every zoological institution should have a spokesperson that is known by the public. Read More
The pressure from human occupation is gonna be so strong that it always wins out. I know around Kilimanjaro, the Africans are now beginning to develop their farms, et cetera, ’cause the needs of farms for Africans is the highest political priority. It’s not the elephants is not the animals. Read More
But we probably are gonna have to get exclusive areas where we can raise elephants or else the gene pools are also gonna start disappearing. I don’t know about that problem. I mean, it maybe easier to save some of the ocean species, you know, like whales, because the ocean… Read More
They wouldn’t be in Africa right now, if it weren’t the fact that they’re bringing in, a lot of money. So we really have to face that. Read More
Otherwise, by the way, if we don’t rotate, we’re gonna terminate biological evolution. Right now, animals can’t move from one section to the other, like they used to in Africa, they’re restricted into. A lot of them are fenced in reserves. Speaking of longevity. Yeah. Read More
Do you have any opinion on the maintaining of elephants in captivity?… Read More