Our education setup, we had a program that we could, you know, get on TVs with, with, I can’t remember some other country, I think it was in Africa actually South Africa, we, I don’t know how we did it time-wise, but we could bring a class into our distance… Read More
So it brought the zoo sort of out to people in a classroom, but they could see the zoo, the zoo on the tv. Read More
What is distance learning in how you approach education?… Read More
It’s not all concrete and bars, which we don’t do anymore. So I think for all three you, you definitely have to build for all three the best you can. Read More
Well, you need to build for both or all three. For instance, as, as I was talking to you earlier, maybe at lunch, the old bear grottos had nowhere and the keepers had to crawl through the animal doors. That’s just not, not sustainable. So that’s the keeper end. So… Read More
So, so those are the kind of things you think about with animals. With the elephants, we wanted to have for instance elevated feeders that gives the elephants a chance with their trunks and to lift up and get on their back feet and that kind of thing. And places. Read More
Well, again, through, through volunteers and, and graphics explaining where the animals are. You know, some people will appreciate the fact that our Bonner book have a couple of acres and they can be anywhere under trees or whatever. Other people say, I came to your zoo, I didn’t see… Read More
Sure. Can you elaborate?… Read More
What exhibit considerations did you have to take into account for visitors viewing space, species in a large space?… Read More
How did you achieve that?… Read More
How does this work? So now I’m at home, Sarah. So my wife has to take me with technology. Fortunately the Apple store is 10 minutes from my house, unfortunately, they know me by name. But anyway, technology’s difficult and it changes so much I can’t every day they seem… Read More
When you were at the zoo, did you hire anybody for technology?… Read More
No, because you remember we were part of Metro Park, so I had no administrative staff. So hr, it, finance, they were all a part of Metro parks, which is good and bad, but you know, and so I didn’t, I didn’t have any of those responsibilities, but obviously they… Read More
And but when I was working I could say, Marsha, how does this work?… Read More
I know we used to do it in the old day with mailers, you know, and so we would buy a list of parent magazine, you know, or something that would relate to, to, to zoos and that would be the list we would use. So they do the same… Read More
No, but when the marketing people tell me what they’re doing with them, I’m very impressed. ’cause we get so much information from that. What they like, what, what they dislike and where they’re coming from. You certainly wanna know where people are coming from. You want to know where… Read More
So I think they’re very important. Do I understand them?… Read More
How does that help promote or how do you think it helps promote the zoo?… Read More
How can this new technology assist in promoting zoos, Twitter, Facebook, remote cameras?… Read More
I guess it does. Well I’m sort of on the marketing advisory committee for Akron and they, they talk all these terms. I don’t understand that, what you just mentioned. And it’s just important because all, some people that’s all they know is the, is the social media and all… Read More