And then, and then it was later on after a while, he’d just say, oh, all right, we don’t need to go to lunch. Just tell me how much do you need. You know, and that’s, you know, that’s a, that’s a, that’s a credibility and a trust that you… Read More
So you really need to take in something that you can, so that they understand. You know, and we’ve actually, we’ve actually resorted to, not resorted to, what we’ve actually evolved into being able to do computer animations with, with AutoCAD and, and Studio Max, you know, which is an… Read More
And so with a track record like that, pretty soon you get, you get credibility, you get a reputation and credibility. So that the next project is easier. Chris Hickson, who was the trustee for the Lied Jungle when we did the Lied Jungle. And when we got up to… Read More
End of discussion. She sat down. (chuckling) But that’s kind of, you know, you can’t buy that kind of credibility. You gotta earn it. It’s gotta be, and we brought, we’d never had a project that went over budget. We’ve never had a project that came in, that didn’t come… Read More
It’s Microcebus simmonsi. It’s the largest of the mouse lemurs. That’s why he wants to, help, you know, keep helping the project. Yeah, well, I mean, Ed, Ed, in addition to being a first rate scientist is a fairly good politician. (chuckling) And the fact is there’s several lemurs named… Read More
You had talked about a little, but what’s your philosophy for selling a project?… Read More
Well, first you got to have, you gotta have a product to sell, and you got to have a product that you believe in. I think, you know, it’s kinda like, well, I don’t want to be too, too crass and commercial, but, you know, it’s, if you’re going to… Read More
I think we got 31 or 32 Malagasy graduate students that we’re supporting right now. The first, you know, the, the first geneticist, you know, the first cellular geneticist in, that graduated from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, and every one since, have all been Omaha students. So, you… Read More
(laughs) Is there a lemur named after you?… Read More
Yeah, there it is. Read More
What’s the name?… Read More
What did the discovering mean and how did it work to help the Omaha Zoo?… Read More
Well, I don’t. Basically actually, you know, Ed and Dr. Lewis has actually published 21 new species of lemurs. He’s renamed another dozen that were misnamed, whatever. And, and he just submitted for publication, which should be coming out any time now, another six species. So, I mean, probably by… Read More
Ed, when I first hired Ed, Ed came aboard, it was not to work with lemurs or tortoises. It was to work with wild cattle, and wild cattle and an antelope and giraffe. That was kind of my focus and interest though, because, you know, I’ve always been interested and… Read More
And so basically, you know, the project that we hired Ed for went down the drain. (laughs) So we never, never did finish, we never finished up our wild cattle. We did publish the giraffe project and the antelope project and wild cattle project went by the way. But Ed… Read More
And actually the Bronx zoo has, has a piece of footage of film that shows gaur and Kouprey and Banteng all in, you know, all in Cambodia and parts of Thailand and Laos. And so we put together a symposium that met in Hanoi in about 1978 with all of… Read More
Nobody, nobody killed thankfully. But the Kouprey really exists up in that Northeastern corner of Cambodia. And then they, then they seasonally migrate over into Vietnam and into Laos and sometimes into Thailand. The Thais found what they were sure were Kouprey tracks that had come into Thailand and turned… Read More
And we went over to Hang Kong Air because Thai Air, and they wouldn’t give us visas. So we couldn’t get on Air France or Thai Air, so we went on over to Hang Kong Air and pass some hundred dollar bills over the counter. And suddenly we could get… Read More
Could you explain what a Kouprey is, and how did Omaha Zoo get involved?… Read More
Well, the Kouprey, well, the Kouprey is, is another CBSG project in a way. Kouprey is a wild cow from Cambodia with kind of lear shaped horns, very unusual. Big dewlap, obviously acclimated for warm weather and, and humid jungle environments. And the, you know, they’ve always been rare. We… Read More