Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 536
And you go, why, why did you do that?… Read More
And you go, why, why did you do that?… Read More
And, and being a good leader means NBWA management by walking around. You’ve said the difficulty is always the people, not the animals. Read More
I’ve had so many people come up and says, wow, you know, you, you’ve, you’ve worked with all these animals. Read More
What’d you mean?… Read More
And they weren’t, they weren’t, the board didn’t think they were at the zoo enough. So you have to be, it’s a, it’s a balance. And I’ve seen zoo directors that do a good job and then the new chair, chairman of the board comes in and says, I don’t… Read More
I think it’s important, first of all, for their own psyche. If you’re gonna sit in your desk all the time and just be in meetings all the time and worry about things, you are gonna get depressed. You’re not gonna enjoy your job. Nobody sees you. No. You know,… Read More
You know, but, but you gotta be careful because you can’t throw somebody under the bus when you don’t know what, what they, the, the variables, the constraints that they had to deal with. When I left Disney, they said, you built holding areas too small. I said, I built… Read More
Now you had alluded before, how important is it for the zoo director to make rounds?… Read More
Like Lee Eke came after me and he made that zoo incredible. The Houston Zoo. ’cause ’cause we, we built a platform for him and we had donor base, but then Lee took it to the next level and that, that’s what you want. Read More
And, and then why did we have, how, how come the old guy was so bad?… Read More
What, what was wrong with the old?… Read More
Why didn’t you, why didn’t you fix this before?… Read More
I mean, you, you, you just can’t clone the, the same zoo director every time. But, but he or she has to build into, you know, their legacy. A continuity. I see it all the time with the new, the new person comes in and, and, and it’s amazing how… Read More
’cause they don’t know what that means. Sometimes some sister zoos, the, the zoos aren’t equal. Usually the, the, the, the rich zoo is in the United States and the sister zoo is in some developing country, and then they expect you to, you know, maybe fund the whole zoo. Read More
Why do you think more zoos don’t have sister zoo relationships?… Read More
It has to be an engaging exhibit. If you can do all three of those things, you’ve got a pretty good habitat. We had talked about national parks and the goods and the bads and why they were or were not working. Read More
We bring architects in that are zoo architects that know what they’re doing. Not architects that just build these monuments to themselves, you know, with, with no source of budget. So the planning process is much more strategic, much more comprehensive. And it includes the animal care staff. It makes… Read More
Have you seen this evolution of how zoo exhibits are approached?… Read More
What has been, in your opinion, the evolution of zoo exhibits?… Read More
Well, definitely there’s more planning involved and there’s more people involved in the planning. It used to be the, it used to be the curator said, oh, I like that. That’s my favorite animal. Let’s just put, I don’t care what the public thinks that, you know, I like prairie… Read More