Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 286
Was some of this, again, just to go back to Sanford for a minute, where you were dealing with the press and dealing with the media, were you picking things up from them?… Read More
Was some of this, again, just to go back to Sanford for a minute, where you were dealing with the press and dealing with the media, were you picking things up from them?… Read More
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I didn’t even know about Gabon. In animal wildlife. Incredible. The president invited me there because he wants to start ecotourism, but he didn’t understand why we should save the forest elephants. He understands, but that’s their culture, they eat the animals. So it takes a while to do that. Read More
You educate them in a zoo and they’ve left here going, “Golly, I didn’t know the giraffe “had the same number of vertebrae we had. “I saw that up there at the zoo, I didn’t know.” And they came here for Dora the Explorer, or Spiderman, or the light show,… Read More
And we’ve had fun doing it. And we want our visitor to have fun doing it. And we want to work with everybody, all the other zoos, except I don’t wanna get in this one. The guy in Denmark. We pulled all of our breeding loans from Denmark. We also… Read More
Do you know what it was by 70-something percent?… Read More
To have fun with our family. Yes, the animals were second, but that tells you something. Not because we’re up here, some circus run round up this place. You can look at our book and see the 62 projects, millions of dollars a year we give it to animals in… Read More
Not conservation. It sounds radical, oh my God, Jack’s a nuts. I’m not nuts at all. Having traveled the world. Do you think I’d go to Rwanda and these countries I’ve been going to for 30 years and tell them, “Guy, well you can’t kill the gorilla.” That’s terrible, when… Read More
I do know one thing, that this, up here at this zoo, people come here for one word, and we done a lot of money on research on this. We had a survey and you can add this where you want to. I have to go through this stuff while… Read More
To have fun at the zoo, To see the animals, to have your picnic, to be safe?… Read More
There was two other, I’m sorry, I don’t remember what they were. Read More
Yes, you better darn well do it, our curators, and you, the director, whoever it is. And yes, it’s serious business, but don’t try and preach that to the public. They don’t want, they don’t, they want you to produce the animals so they can learn and love about them. Read More
I’d done some wrong things, all right?… Read More
This is the other place, by the way. But you see where I’m coming from. I’m not knocking what we do, we’ve done a great job. All, everybody has, but we have to really get serious about this, and really start working together very much closer, very quickly. I know… Read More
And then we got EMPAs, all these big terms, and it is important, but you know something?… Read More
Our zoo visitor, excuse my language again, but you can edit it, didn’t give a rat’s ass about SSPs. They don’t come to learn about SSPs. That’s our job. My daughter’s brain tumor. I didn’t ask the doctor if he was going through the foretex, ortex, all this stuff. I… Read More
But we have a hard time even getting sustainability in our own zoos. They practice, they’re preaching things. They don’t practice what they preach, that’s all. And I’m gonna do a lecture before I retire someday, and try, it’s getting much better, don’t get me wrong. We still have, not… Read More
We still have that thing of, well, do we want the wilds?… Read More
We had the 10,000, we were able to send some animals here, oh my God, that, they’re gonna get PR out of that. We don’t care about, I’ve preached to my people. We don’t care about the PR to the wilds. I could give a rat’s you know what. If… Read More
You know what, people say this sustainability program, how are we gonna work together?… Read More