Not bad at all. I think for what it was, they thought that it was handled correctly. We didn’t have a major problem there. They were very interested, of course they would be and so they did a pretty good job of presenting it to their subscribers. Now, you’ve alluded… Read More
When you left the San Antonio Zoo, twofold question, what was your budget kind of when you left and how did you get that money to run the zoo?… Read More
Where did it come from?… Read More
Just cooperating with them as much as possible, giving them good stories, thanks to the staff who would put together a press release. Telling them we’re sending it. Read More
I would call the city desk or something and say, we got this for you, are you interested?… Read More
And they seemed to always be. Read More
Well, I think I did a pretty good job of relating to the media. They seemed to enjoy very much coming to visit and asking what’s going on at the zoo. And if we sent them a press release, they’d come flocking to the zoo to get more information. We… Read More
Did you nurture that relationship?… Read More
You bet I did. Read More
How did you do that?… Read More
No. I think in each of those cases, it was the curatorial staff that got the information and we all agreed that that’s what we should do. You talked about the incident with the gorilla and obviously it made the press in San Antonio. Read More
What kind of a presence did you have in the media?… Read More
How were you reacting relating to the media in San Antonio?… Read More
And you were part of a national program then?… Read More
Right. Read More
Would that kind of thing, with the tamarins, the Guam, kingfisher or some of these or the Andean condor, is that a program that is brought to you by your curatorial?… Read More
Was it by a curatorial staff saying we should be involved or was it you having the information saying, we will be involved in this project to help endangered species?… Read More
Yes, we did that with a lot of birds and it worked for the most part. Read More
And you had also involvement with the birds on Guam?… Read More
Graham Kingfisher project that several zoos got involved in because it was a serious problem that cropped up, it seems to me as I remember it, that it happened very quickly and we had to do something. And so we got as many as we could into zoos and the… Read More