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
Can you tell me why you had those, that that size of a collection of those type of animals?… Read More
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
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
Would this be possible in today’s world?… Read More
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
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
What role did your family play in the care of animals and their connection to the zoo?… Read More
Did you bring animals home?… Read More
Oh yeah. Well, luckily I think, as I said, I got really lucky, you know, with a, with a mom who helped me with a lot of that early stuff. But, Marie, you know, I met when we were undergraduate, married just before we got into vet school, was extremely… Read More
And then ultimately, which ultimately led down the road to improvements. And Ron Foreman came in and, you know, the New Orleans Zoo went from being the absolute worst major zoo in the United States, if maybe not in the world. It was absolutely the worst thing I’d ever seen. Read More
You know, we’d have tigers that we’d get up and try to wander off. It was in the days when we were using phencyclidine or Sernylan on everything, angel dust, if you will. And so the good thing about that drug is that they might get up and try to… Read More
Yeah, yeah. Read More
What was that about?… Read More
Well, that was back. That was back when we were, we were trying to get enough information, enough blood samples to, to get some physiological norms and blood norms. And New Orleans Zoo was in real flux then. They lost their, their old director died. They were in real flux. Read More
I put a team together from my shop. Luckily they were good strong Nebraska country boys and, and Ulie put a team together from graduate students and his techs from Minnesota. And we went down and in four days we immobilized, bled, TB tested, took blood samples from, hair samples,… Read More
And so Bob Lacy was director of CBSG for about eight years now, Andy Byers is. I think we’ve got about 600 zoos that are supporting CBSG. But CBSG has worked in all kinds of things, like for the Florida panther, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea tree kangaroos, all over,… Read More
And he could do that with a, you know, he could do that with a group in Indonesia where you had standing generals that on the one hand that were head of a department and down clear down to the line to the, you know, to the, to the ranger… Read More
And didn’t you you have to work with him on a project in New Orleans where you did a lot of tranquilizations?… Read More
So, and so I was, you know, involved with part of that. Then after Houston became the chairman of the committee and the committee was Ulie Seale and myself, we spent a couple of years of not telling anybody what we were doing. And then ultimately brought it to the… Read More