“Is that better than to let the animal live out in the wild?” Well, she never thought about that, but we shouldn’t have a living one in the aquarium. I think she learned a lesson there. Zoos and aquariums in too many cases today appear to be afraid to confront… Read More
Oh, sure. Yes, absolutely. We would let them know when a particular important animal died. We’d call them and say, Hey, this happens, and we’re sorry to lose it. But go to a hospital, there’s people dying all the time. So this is an animal hospital in effect. And I… Read More
I had one person from Field Museum. And I think this was at the time when we still had Chico. And she was all over me about keeping these animals in captivity and so forth. And I said, “Wait a minute, “I’ve been up in your bird department, “and I’ve… Read More
“And what do you see?… Read More
Did you cultivate the press?… Read More
Did you try and cultivate– No. Read More
Did you have activities that you wanted to show them when an animal was born?… Read More
What’s your response to that?… Read More
I say, you know, maybe they have a point. Maybe the tank is too small, but we don’t have anything right now. Or shouldn’t the animal be better being out in the open on its own. I’d say, you know, maybe it would, but you have to balance this. Read More
Is the animal being out in the open ocean, is it contributing more to our overall knowledge of these animals?… Read More
We were acquiring certain information that we wouldn’t know that can be applied to the free-ranging animals. And I said we can do research on those animals here, or at least observations that will tell us about something that’s going to involve bigger populations out there. And they would accept… Read More
How did you want it?… Read More
What did you try and do?… Read More
Well, my relationship with the press, I answered their questions as honestly as I could. I didn’t try to dodge anything. If they’d say, well, the activists say this and that and the other thing. Read More
Was that part of the evolution?… Read More
Yeah, but I think in cases like that, you know, handling them and so forth, we were getting different people coming in that had some training and they were people that had college degrees that were coming to work there. And they brought their knowledge with them. And I like… Read More
What was your relationship with the press?… Read More
Oh, I always kicked the tires, Mark. There wasn’t a day went by, that I did not tour the back and tour the front. And I can’t tell you how many times, particularly in what we called in those days, the balanced aquarium room, where there were small tanks with… Read More
I say, go and look. Oh, sorry, I missed that. Or on the bigger tank, something was wrong with some fish being harassed by others. I say, you know, either get the bully out of that tank or get the victim out, or anything that was wrong with the exhibit,… Read More
So did you help to spearhead different ways of handling animals, feeding animals?… Read More