So that was a valuable part. Later we bred the first Steller’s eagles in that exhibit that were ever bred in the United States. And we continue to breed Steller’s, which is again, a very rare, one of the most magnificent of all the sea eagles. Read More
Can you describe visitor services at the Cincinnati zoo when you first came there and how did it change over a period of time, and what were the changes you started to initiate?… Read More
I think there’s always going to be a little bit of competition, which is not a bad thing. I think it’s a good thing between zoological parks. Today I think a good thing that’s come out of the zoo field that I see a massive change in is the ability… Read More
What was your first big development for Cincinnati Zoo?… Read More
The first biggie?… Read More
During his reign as president, I think we accomplished more in the zoo than I had ever accomplished in my remainder or prior to that, because it was just a good combination, good chemistry. Read More
What was your relationship with other zoos and their directors?… Read More
What do you feel that relationship should be?… Read More
Who made the biggest impression on you?… Read More
Were there famous people that made the biggest impression or scientists or ordinary people?… Read More
The people that most impressed me in the zoo field, in the zoo field were some of the Europeans, because again, they were- Dr. Dotty from Berlin I was impressed with. He was a very powerful individual. He ran a large organization and he ended up a very good friend… Read More
It was like insects, there was no challenge. There was nothing known about the husbandry. On top of my zoo directorship, I had a little area in a little corner in the zoo that I was doing amphibian husbandry research and keeping various species, and eventually was successful in breeding… Read More
In the learning part of the job, what professionals either zoo or aquarium or otherwise did you respect and learn from, and who had the most influence on you?… Read More
When I think about my zoo career and who had the most influence, I think there were probably two gentlemen that I was enamored with and respected. They were both different, they were like two sides of a coin. One was Marlin because he was very forthright and he did… Read More
It’s hard to pinpoint any one. Those two individuals in the broad sense, but I learned a lot from almost everybody I knew in the field. You learn what you want to learn. You’ve met a lot of people as director. Yes. Read More
He says marginal. He was nursing this beetle on his hand. He was a wonderful man. And they ended- Between Mylon and Randy- Well, getting back, we began to get more and more comfortable. So I approached two ladies from the Crosley- they were sisters of Powel Crosley. Crosley was… Read More
So they agreed and they gave me $250,000 to build this exhibit. Well, the more we got into the exhibit, the more exciting we got into it. I kept going back to the board and stretching it and stretching it and getting money from here and there. Eventually we spent… Read More
And that was something- You might as well have a dead antelope in a cage, I felt, as trying display a dead insect, but these guys were fantastic. And we developed a strong theme in that building, and it was the theme of diversity and how important insects were to… Read More
And everybody said it wouldn’t work, that the animals wouldn’t react or people would damage the animals, you know, kids, but it worked beautifully. We used heliconius and the difference between heliconius, in our situation, it’s a forest butterfly and it focuses on the ground or on its surroundings. It’s… Read More
And I said, what you got there?… Read More