You know, the mother in the, in the nursery there, obviously the mother was, you know, in there, they filmed her too, ’cause she was, Nick had gone inside there and stitched her up. But that was when the Columbus zoo, or Jack Hanna, whatever. That when ABC Good Morning… Read More
I have no problem with that, you know. it’s just that, “Sure, I’ll get some animals.” These animals treated better than most people are. As I tell people today, when I debate animal rights folks, 98% plus for animals, they come from other zoos. They don’t come from the wild. Read More
If I need a cheetah or giraffe or gorilla, I’m using examples, I can take a veterinarian over there right now from Ohio State, these guys, are yu kidding me?… Read More
He runs in there, still filming everything, these cameras. He runs in here and just rips it, the afterbirth off, and the baby starts going like this. For first we saw nothing, and he started going like this, you know, moving and stuff. So he grabs the baby like this… Read More
All of a sudden the children’s zoo calls, “where’s Nick?” “I don’t know where he is, where, he’s down there, “he’s been there for 10 minutes ago.” He can’t find him. Finally, we, everybody bust out of the building, go flying, screaming his frigging name. He’s in the maintenance office,… Read More
“Don’t do it, Jack. The baby’s not nursing. “She’s bleeding real bad. I got to go in there. “So we’ve got to fix her.” So both of them were raised there. Both of them grew up together. Good morning America just started. Because of that question, you maybe ask, I… Read More
So what happened is, it’s laying there, right?… Read More
The mother walks away with that first baby. Nick goes, “Jack, don’t get nervous. “If that continue to be that sack for three minutes, “you will not have a gorilla. “So I want decision now what to do. “Do you want me, you can’t go in there, “the mother’s got… Read More
In the, in the wrapped totally in the afterbirth, right?… Read More
That mother squirts out, ’cause she doesn’t know. As you know, a lot of gorillas were pulled back then, you know, that’s what we did. And any zoo that denies it’s lying. Most of them were pulled because they were such a valuable animal for breeding. And then we didn’t,… Read More
“Jack, okay, you’re a doctor, what is this?… Read More
“Come here a minute.” I go, “Holy mackerel!” Even the zoo’s, the gorilla staff go. “This is impossible, there is no gorillas, “been born in a zoo.” Everybody went nuts. They called the media. National geographic got involved, came and set up cameras. Everybody did. Nick picked the day of… Read More
So all of a sudden, it happens two days prior to when he said it was gonna happened. The baby squirts out, and she takes the afterbirth, eats it and sits there and nurses the baby. Then everybody’s up there going, “Oh my gosh, when’s the next one coming?” “I… Read More
“I’ll bring doctors in from the Ohio State, “from your veterinarian, “You got veterinarians down here.” Which were then starting to work here. Now the whole zoo is involved with the Ohio State Veterinary School, which it’s been the last 10 years, obviously. So then we started doing our physical… Read More
So anyway, he sonogram, or what do you call it?… Read More
The thing we put that jelly on. Ultrasound. he did one of those things, and he goes like this, just normal, “That’s amazing. “This amazing, Jack, I guess, I don’t know, “maybe it isn’t amazing. “There’s two heads here.” And I said, “Nick, that’s not even funny. That’s stupid. “Don’t… Read More
Twin gorillas,and then I had a veterinarian help me, or not a veterinarian, my wife’s gynecologist, can you imagine this?… Read More
‘Cause the gorilla’s having eclampsia. I don’t know what eclampsia is, a thing females get, all right, when they have babies and stuff. It’s, it can be fatal. And Nick was a gynecologist. And they did an autopsy on the gorilla when it’d pass, and it was eclampsia, something all… Read More
Oh my God, I sat there and just, I damn near started crying. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. And then our, even the staff were going crazy. Then the word got out, and then all about 100-and-something thousand people start pouring into the place. Read More
Then what do we have right after that?… Read More