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The work on the cattle, the embryo transfers?… Read More

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Not right now, because we’ve done it. We got, we got a big semen bank and embryo bank with, I don’t know, there is probably 25,000 specimens in, in liquid nitrogen that right now the gaur project has been put to bed, but we have got for a period of… Read More

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You were involved with some work with the Kouprey?… Read More

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Yeah, yeah. Read More

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And how they– Well, you know, well part of that, part of that has to do again, we’re going back to a lot of the work that Ulie came down and did, we used to put together these work groups where we’d bring in Dave Wilt and Joelle Howard and… Read More

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So a lot of those early successes were collaborative things that had to do with the National Zoo and, you know, and Ulie Seale and, and, you know, not necessarily the, you know, the zoos in Minnesota, although we’ve always collaborated with, you know, everybody. So a lot of these,… Read More

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Is that work with cattle and the work that you mentioned, is that still going on in Omaha?… Read More

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Which is that?… Read More

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Now you did some work with embryo transplant?… Read More

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Embryo transfers, yeah. Read More

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Can you tell us something about that?… Read More

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And so on a Sunday morning, we just kind of whizzed into the OR in Children’s and did a cut down, got a catheter in place. For some odd reason, the hospital administrator got bent out of shape over that. And they couldn’t fire me because I didn’t work for… Read More

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We’re doing in our cardiology study gorillas, you know, with this diffuse myocardial fibrosis that really kind of started in Omaha. And we’d just, we’d never, if you’re willing to ask for help, you’re almost guaranteed to get it. Will you have told us that you, at one time had… Read More

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Can you tell me why you had those, that that size of a collection of those type of animals?… Read More

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It was (mumbles). If you’ve got, if you’ve got to do genetic management, if you’re going to have, I mean, I, I think I’d maybe just said it, and thought I’d said it earlier. Again, you know, if you’re gonna talk about genetic management, genetic diversity, managing your heterozygosity and… Read More

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So now we had three kids at home and all taking a bottle, all in diapers. And Marie took care of them. You know, we just, we would take the dining room table out and set up incubators in the dining room and put the house in quarantine when like… Read More

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Would this be possible in today’s world?… Read More

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I don’t see why not. (laughs) Although most zoos have facilities. We did this, not because it was necessarily, it was, you know, something fun and interesting to do. We did it because it was necessary. We didn’t have, we didn’t have any facilities in those days. But on the… Read More

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But the allied medical community in Omaha is, has been really, really remarkable because we had no facilities, no equipment, nothing in the, in the beginning. And so I kind of went around and made the rounds to the hospitals and the med center and all of that, and all… Read More

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What role did your family play in the care of animals and their connection to the zoo?… Read More