Interview 8364 – Caption Index: 433
Ted, he called me and said, “Have you gotten your invitation to come to the meeting yet?… Read More
Ted, he called me and said, “Have you gotten your invitation to come to the meeting yet?… Read More
We wanna see you and introduce you to the other members.” I said, “No, I hadn’t.” And I forget, and I think it was Collin Rollins from London who was president and he called Colin and he said, “Louis DiSabato haven’t gotten that invitation yet, when are you gonna send… Read More
Yeah, the World Association of Zoos. There are so many regional, if you wanna call the world reset of regions, but ours is still in my mind the very best, because we not only have the American zoos, but the Canadian zoos and we used to have the Mexican zoos. Read More
You were invited to join the association?… Read More
I was invited many years ago. Read More
You know, the International Union of Zoo Directors initially was by invitation only. And there were only a handful. And I think that was good, but most zoo people who weren’t members thought it was just a club for certain zoo people. Now, it’s not. Now it’s open to almost… Read More
And they’ve all been to my zoos and enjoyed dinner in our homes and I in theirs. And it was just a good arrangement. Read More
And in today’s world, it’s even more important that there be an international union as there is an important reason to have an American association, but look at all the other associations we have in the world besides the WAZA, what do they call it?… Read More
So I talked with him and I found out he was a duplicate of me at that age. And he’s just retiring this year from the San Antonio Zoo, after being in San Antonio for many, many years as a senior keeper. I offered him more than once a higher… Read More
How important was it for you to be involved in the International Union of Zoo Directors?… Read More
And did that help San Antonio Zoo, or is it positive for zoos in the United States to be part of this organization?… Read More
But you know, you look for education now as number one, you have to, just like any other business, interest in if they have experience, if they have any experience in zoos, what experience was it?… Read More
What zoo was it?… Read More
And then you always, you have in your mind, this zoo has a great staff potential. They have, because you see them at conferences. As I went to conferences, these young people are still doing that. And that’s how I would, when I’d get a request from them to be… Read More
You were hired as a young age, as a curator, you probably thought you deserve it and have a lot of things to bring to the position. Read More
But what were you looking for when you were in the position in San Antonio to bring people aboard?… Read More
Well, I think we all look at, nowadays especially, not so much in years and years ago, we didn’t look at education as much as we did experience. I was always taught that and I was taught by the old time keepers, “You ain’t got enough experience.” That’s what they’d… Read More
I did. In fact, I think we got the Bean Award for that particular birth as well as we did for Colo and Fred didn’t, we didn’t have the Bean Award when he had the whooping crane in San Antonio, but. Read More
Did that type of birth help the marketing of the zoo and the fundraising?… Read More
It certainly did for the year that that animal was very small. Everyone wanted to come and see the white rhino. Of course they thought it was gonna be pure white. That’s always a difficult thing to explain to people who don’t really come to the zoo often, but they’re… Read More