The goals was to have a more, more complete coverage. You know, the, to have, nobody would really think about having a collection that size, you know, be the responsibility of one individual. I mean, you know, as I mentioned, Mumby mumby took place later. I was on vacation. If,… Read More
And then I either push or watch for any opportunity to, to take that first step. The associate veterinarian, assistant veterinarian is a perfect example of that. Dr. Barbara Thomas at the time now, Dr. Barbara Baker worked with us as, as an extern during vet school, had obviously a… Read More
And so it’s a very precise scientific and kind of involved way to determine percent body fat. And then we also experimented with some other, or took some other measurements so that we could come up with a considerably less complicated but equally precise way of doing it. And so… Read More
What were your goals?… Read More
Were you able to expand the veterinary staff during your tenure?… Read More
Were you able to have the freedom at Lincoln Park to develop medical initiatives?… Read More
We, I guess my approach had, had always been to, you know, you’re, you’re trying to answer questions. Sometimes that’s just a one-off, you know, what, what do I need to do with this animal to treat this problem or, or diagnose this problem, which is more the detective side… Read More
If so, what were they?… Read More
We would, we would rely on some of the folks from Northwestern back in the day to say, we’ve got this animal and it’s sick and we don’t know where to go with it. And part implied in that was, we also don’t have a lot of the equipment that… Read More
And she really went downhill, I think on a weekend day one time. And, and so she called some of the folks from Northwestern and it, and it wound up turning into a, a marathon procedure, both of diagnostics. They did laparoscopy where, or endoscopy where they’re putting the scopes… Read More
I think it was, it was an advantage because I think you, you didn’t, you didn’t need to, you didn’t need to go into the background of why, you know, what it, what will this problem, what will this problem turn into if we leave it alone, what are the… Read More
I think one of the things about the, the colleagues at Northwestern, there really was a, a battery of physicians that, as opposed to some of the things we’re dealing with nowadays where we’ve got a diagnosis, the animal’s been through the CT scan, we’ve done all this stuff, and… Read More
Those, those were all things that were part of his experience. So you could, you could kind of dispense with a lot of the more remedial parts of things that you would, you know, if I, if I was explaining the risk rewards equation to a keeper or a curator,… Read More
And, you know, I reminded Dr. Fisher multiple times and, and finally went out and said, we’re getting ready to start, so what, what’s the plan?… Read More
Was this an advantage or a disadvantage to you?… Read More
And he walked out to the front, addressed all the crowds standing there and said, the, the reason we did this procedure, the the dental part is pretty much done. All of you are welcome to stay and watch while we just wrap things up. But if you’re interested, we… Read More
So that was unusual and it was an animal that, that hadn’t been touched in a long time. So we invited the press out. The situation with the snow leopard was different in that it was sort of their request. They just wanted to see, they just wanted to get… Read More
And so there were three TV cameras, there were people from the Chicago Sun Times the Chicago Tribune. So it, it was sort of routine when you had something high profile and unusual that you would invite the press out to see it, Go back to the gorilla, tranquil for… Read More
They use, they essentially put in an electrical probe and stimulate the animal to give semen so that you can test it. And the best way to do that in terms of the proximity of the nervous system is to insert this probe into the rectum and do the electrical… Read More
Certainly press was involved in a lot of procedures, specifically when Sined was tranquilized. Yeah, yeah, I think so. So this one was sort of an odd case. It wasn’t one where usually the publicity is about you’re doing something unusual. We immobilized a gorilla named Sinbad at Lincoln Park… Read More