Interview 5420 – Caption Index: 686
What can US zoos or what should US zoos be doing or aquariums to help and upgrade developing countries with their zoos where the zoos may not have the information needed to do as good a job?… Read More
What can US zoos or what should US zoos be doing or aquariums to help and upgrade developing countries with their zoos where the zoos may not have the information needed to do as good a job?… Read More
How can the US zoos support their sister zoos in these underdeveloped areas?… Read More
Well I think it would be nice if a zoo could adopt a sister zoo in a foreign country in need and have some fundraising program within their own community to raise money, to send to help train the people in that foreign zoo and perhaps provide some money for… Read More
Well the Arizona Desert Museum is my favorite zoo. It’s specifically concentrates on the Sonoran Desert. It’s a museum, botanical garden, aquarium, weather station, science, center of research, everything but devoted just to one environment. The Monterey Aquarium is devoted just to the Fisher Monterey Bay. Everything you wanna learn… Read More
They do that on a national basis to an education program. And I guess the Singapore Zoo is one of my favorite zoos because it’s a country on an island and a city all in one. There’s no natural water in Singapore, so they built a big reservoir. It’s a… Read More
Those are three that come to mind. Read More
Well since I’m not active in it anymore in the last 13 years, only having attended two conference. I can’t really address it honestly. I know it’s much more complex. The old AAZPA was mostly animal people, directors, curators. And today, it’s marketing, fundraising, development, human resources, legal aspects, very… Read More
Are there any zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Who are they and why do you admire them?… Read More
And if they can’t afford it, then they should send their elephants to a zoo that can. Read More
Do you think zoos are doing enough to help and conserve the wild as they should be doing?… Read More
I’m aware of St. Louis Zoo doin’ more than they’ve ever had. They’ve got 12 research centers in the country or wilderness areas. And each year, there’s more money gettin’ thrown in that direction and I think that is a national phenomena and I hope that it continues. But I… Read More
How would you say AZA today compares with the AAZPA of 30 years ago?… Read More
Whereas potentially, as some people might say that money could go toward helping animals in the wild?… Read More
Well I think zoos should do both. I don’t think every zoo has to have elephants. But I think if the zoo does have elephants and choose to have elephants, then they should give ’em the largest holding area that they can and that they should participate in a national… Read More
What’s your view regarding zoos maintaining elephants and how it should be done correctly, if possible?… Read More
And the second part of that is zoos spend multi-millions, tens of millions of dollars on some of these elephant exhibits. Read More
Is it worthwhile to do that?… Read More
Should it be just regional or should it be endangered or should just be holding species that are endangered but can’t breed for SSP or should they have the same kinda collection philosophy as has a large?… Read More
I think that each of possibilities would be suitable for any one zoo. A small zoo like the Arizona Desert Museum is exhibiting animals only of the Sonoran Desert from Arizona and Mexico, no place else. It doesn’t have worldwide collection. The Topeka Zoo is really a small zoo, yet… Read More