And I used to go up into the mountains of Virginia, the Appalachians, and he would use me to go over the cliff to a peregrine falcon (indistinct) and film the chicks and things like that. But he was a real visionary. His name was John Hamlet. And so wait… Read More
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What was the first zoo that you remember going to?… Read More
Oh, that’s interesting. In Virginia. Read More
And so they asked me what the disease was?… Read More
And I without hesitation I say, “Well, my disease was that nobody told me “what I couldn’t do.” Now, if I wanna get an applause, if I’m speaking to a group and I say, “I got that disease nobody told me what I couldn’t do.” And I said, “And let’s… Read More
I was the first person to study that. And that’s because I had the freedom to do basically what I express my interest. And that’s a very rare interest. Oh, there’s one other thing I needed to talk to you about. (chuckles) My brothers don’t necessarily believe what I’m gonna… Read More
In the fourth grade I mentioned, I wrote a paper on birds of prey, later on in life, I found out that the name Fowler is a quote in the Bible. It says,” Be aware of the snare of the fowler.” And my father and mother were kidded about that… Read More
By the way I people ask me how I got started?… Read More
But one of the problems I went to a college in Indiana called Earlham College, which is a Quaker school in Richmond. And it was a Liberal Arts College. And I had been to a private school named Westtown School in Pennsylvania. It was also a very high quality Quaker… Read More
I think Earlham was maybe number two in producing PhDs in science. So I had that exposure at Earlham College, but it being not at university I could be fairly flexible in my interests. And so what happened was that I tell people that I caught a disease at Earlham… Read More
Was it at a zoo or how did that occur?… Read More
I started getting involved with a lot of the, what’s the best word for, you know, some of the species that are here on the planet with us that are predators or whatever. And I had the freedom to do that, which was fascinating. In today’s world, you’re so regulated… Read More
It’s really even difficult to raise your younger brother, much less an animal if you know what I mean?… Read More
It’s getting very complicated, but I did have at a pretty early age, I had a cheetah named Arthur that I actually… That cheetah was given to me by one of the curators at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. And I used to raise, his name was Arthur. But… Read More
It goes from Falls Church all the way to the airport, national airport. And it comes out into a kind of a fresh water lake there. So I had a lot of fun reminiscing about that creek, ’cause that too was a place that I learned awful lot. I used… Read More
When was your first experience with exotic animals?… Read More
I had some pretty strange animals ’cause I used to lecture all over the country. Well, over the Eastern United States with things like, well, I had a pair of giant anteaters named Lawrence and Florence. And I used to lecture with a tamandua, a cheetah. I had a young… Read More
Was this because of the Four Mile Run area that you were near?… Read More
Well, you mentioned Four Mile Run that was in Virginia in Falls Church. I remember that very well because for a while my father when he was based in Washington, we lived in Falls Church and Four Mile Run was just a little ways down the road from us. And… Read More