Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 832
How did you get the community to embrace ZooTampa, to embrace the zoo, did you have strategies?… Read More
How did you get the community to embrace ZooTampa, to embrace the zoo, did you have strategies?… Read More
You know, oh, we just hunted 10 more, just hunted 20 more, you know, but times how many more before that?… Read More
Would that be a shocker?… Read More
So again, not our decision to make, our job is to be as responsible as we can and then let the cards fall as they want. So to me, it’s, you know, you go to China and you see what they did during a cultural revolution when Mao said kill… Read More
It’s just important to me that we don’t think we are better than those animals. And that our job is to make sure we still got ’em. Because eventually, not in our lifetime, but who knows how many generations down the road. Read More
What do you have left?… Read More
You got nothing left. Well, Africa’s like got nothing in it anymore. Wow. Read More
Yeah. Yeah, we’re not going anywhere. But exponentially, every time we make these kinds of decisions in a negative way, we take that much more of the slice of our culture and being off of the face of the earth, you gonna eventually end up with nothing. Read More
You know, if the last of the rhinos is, you know, one rhino species still on the face of the earth, is the world gonna stop turning?… Read More
Absolutely not. But boy, what a failure on our part as the supposedly most intelligent species walking on the face of the earth. Nobody should be able to make those kinds of decisions. I mean, that’s not ours to make. If they fail because they can’t thrive, that’s a whole… Read More
We can do away with this one, we don’t need it anymore. Now, we’ve done that, we’ve lost a lot of species on the face of the earth. Read More
And are we still here?… Read More
You know, you lose that animal, who cares?… Read More
‘Cause I heard for so many years like, well, why is that?… Read More
Well, everything is connected in our biological world. There’s a reason we have rhinos, there’s a reason we have Inca terns, there’s a reason we have shoebill storks. There’s a reason for all that. Read More
It’s just one species. Yeah. But it’s all part of the web, as they say. And it’s all part of our being. I don’t know how else to say it, it’s a quality-of-life issue. They all play a role for us. We have to be careful that we’re just not… Read More
So left with great disappointment. The White Oak staff said well, we tried. That’s all we can say. We tried and we failed. So yeah, just watched it disappear. Watched the animal disappear off the face of the earth. You have said all animals contribute to our way of life. Read More
What did you mean?… Read More
Well, we can’t force ’em to do it, you know?… Read More
And then what have you got?… Read More