Interview 4487 – Caption Index: 453
It’s a little self-centered, but you know what?… Read More
It’s a little self-centered, but you know what?… Read More
I earned it. Read More
What do you know about this profession you spent your life and devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
When we talk about the long-term prospects for animals, shame on either of the two professional organizations, if they finally don’t get to the point where they literally get together and bury their disagreements. There are more animals of more importance held in private hands among members of the Zoological… Read More
What would you say is your proudest accomplishment in your career that stands that you’re proud of?… Read More
Well, I mean, you know, there’s tick off marks. You know, we’ve already talked about presidency of the association and the work with giant pandas. For me, I guess it’s in reflection, it’s probably that I was the first non-director ever to serve on the AZA board twice and the… Read More
Do you have an opinion?… Read More
There is, I won’t say a new kid in town, but there’s the Zoological Association of America. That was a breakaway from the American Zoo Associations. It seems like to me, they cannot work together. It seems like that’s what they wanna do. Read More
Why is there in your opinion, this, is there a place for both to be working together toward the good of animals as you’ve talked about?… Read More
And if you could go in and change something, in hindsight, what would it be?… Read More
As we’ve discussed earlier on, the SSP was a cooperative management program developed for the conservation of identified species. It was done in a way that everybody worked together to accomplish a set of specified goals. Over time, what’s happened to it is, is the bureaucrats have walked into it. Read More
There are so many layers of discussion, approval, non-approval, justification, all of those words that we all have those layers that we learn and that it’s almost self-limiting. And the association is finally beginning to realize that there’s a real problem. And there also is a real problem about having… Read More
You had talked about the SSP and you were very much involved in the program, from its earliest conception, looking back last 40 years, how do you see its evolution?… Read More
What were its successes, what are its failures?… Read More
What do you see 40 years from today?… Read More
Does conservation, is education, is the research aspect?… Read More
Do they all have a place or should one be more emphasized for the future of the zoos as we move forward?… Read More
In my view, one of our major obligations is interpretation. We have a role to play in informing people, both formally and informally in education programs, in whatever activities are on the zoo grounds. We have an obligation to those animals that we hold to make contributions to conservation, more… Read More
Have you really experienced, have you really experienced what animals in captive, how animals are maintained in captivity?… Read More
And do you really understand how they can be ambassadors for their own kind, and the good that comes out of that?… Read More