And the things that look cute and adorable aren’t gonna hurt us. The most popular animal in the world today is probably the panda. And the second one is the koala bear. Well, both pandas and koalas can really take your part. They’re not as cute and lovable as they… Read More
We’re the custodians of all life on this planet. We can blow off a atomic bomb and kill everything there is alive on this planet if we want to. But we are in danger of liking those animals that we think we can understand that they look a little human,… Read More
People will often walk through the zoological park from one end to go out the other end. And they say, this animal is dangerous, that one looks mean. There is no such thing as being mean in the natural world. And that one is spectacular, that one’s cute. We always… Read More
Can you tell us what they are and what the meanings are?… Read More
Well, when you’re speaking about wildlife and the natural world and showing animals to people, one of the things that you learn very quickly is how ignorant people are of animal behavior, and what’s really going on?… Read More
We go around and talking about dolphins being so intelligent that they can sooner or later communicate with us. We’d like to see animals that have the ability to act like a human. I mean, it’s very rampant. Read More
Most of the reaction from people to an animal or based upon how cute it is, isn’t it adorable?… Read More
Now, everybody should be an animal, right?… Read More
So I mean, an animal has the rights to be respected as an animal. But that doesn’t mean that you have to make it, into a human being. You gotta respect an animal for what it is, not because it has human characteristics. So I use that. I know how… Read More
I think you were talking about that. Read More
You don’t see them on Sunday morning television. You see a bunch of baloney on Sunday morning television, you know, what’s happening in Hollywood or somewhere else. But we’ve got to learn to use television to make points in a way that people watch it, and learn about it. That’s… Read More
Well, speaking of that, when you were doing Wild Kingdom, was there any backlash from the animal rights groups or you had personal experience with these folks?… Read More
No, in fact, the head of the Humane Society, Wayne Pacelle. I think his name is. He says that he got his interest in animals in watching the Wild Kingdom. See the point is we were… It was reality what we were doing. We weren’t molesting animals. You gotta understand… Read More
And my first line was where the cameras?… Read More
See I thought it was a talk show and there were no cameras around. And then the George had accidentally run over a little squirrel. And his girlfriend who was in the car made him take it to a vet because he had injured the squirrel. And so it ended… Read More
And that’s been rerun an awful lot. I’m now down to residual payments. Each time that’s shown of about $6 and 50 cents. But that’s using… What I’m really saying is that television, we have to work with it. It’s not gonna go away. And the greatest way to influence… Read More
But I have to limit myself and make sure that I capture the attention of the audience with the animals or with a film that I show. And then I can say something of value, and by the way, I evolved quite a while ago into somebody who wants to… Read More
But nevertheless, I think I was able to show some respect for what I had. Read More
I had a hawk on Seinfeld that went after George and which was, you know, and that show the story is often, you can’t quite figure out what the show is?… Read More
But Kramer was sitting there wanting to do a talk show in his apartment, and they were at the restaurant and Jerry said, or rather Kramer said to Jerry, he said, “Jerry, my show is not going very well. “I think I’m gonna get Jim Fowler and his animals,” And… Read More