Well, I don’t know that any of ’em did have difficulty that we, we really got involved with. I mean, it’s easy to give people money. So I, I don’t know that we did the zoo’s really, really involved now in, in gorillas. And they’re doing very well with funding… Read More
And I was really damn lucky that didn’t happen. So I feel I had a successful career. We talked about conservation. Read More
Our park ranger knew to park his truck in front of that door. He just pulled it up to the door so the door couldn’t be shut out. So, but as far as a, a dangerous animal escape or any other animal escape, I, I don’t remember any. We were… Read More
And even the volunteers are all trained. I get a volunteer newsletter that says this month they’re doing an escape drill for cheetahs. Be aware. And they tell us what we’re supposed to do all the time. You’re supposed to make sure you’re safe and get the public to safety… Read More
And, and you know, they trained the police, they had the police department come in and all that. And lo and behold, they had a gorilla get out and the police came in and shot it. They didn’t do anything that was on the drill. And so you best plans… Read More
Now you mentioned also animal escapes. How did you prepare for animal escapes and did you have any We never had a dangerous animal out that I can remember. I think we had a a a a throws deer out once, but it jumped back in the, in the mode… Read More
I get out there starting to get light at six in the morning. Di the flood water had gone down a lot. And then the back step of the rainforest, which is about as high as this loading dock was about like this table, there was a tart carp about… Read More
How does the zoo, how did you have the zoo prepare for natural weather disasters?… Read More
Did you have to deal with any Oh yeah, yeah. Well, a ZA has mandatory yearly drills. It can’t be tabletop drills of the areas and weather, animal escape, et cetera, et cetera. The weather one that we had was flooding. We have a stream that comes right through the… Read More
And once the water backs up, a lot of times, because logs and stuff come to the culvert. But once it backs up on those culvert, then the water comes over the top and actually goes right down between monkey island and Africa and goes out a gate. Now if… Read More
That’s always an issue when you have a public zoo with a nonprofit support group. But we were, we were able to answer that question, well, we make, makes a good zoo better if you give us money, you know, type thing. So I think we were pretty successful at… Read More
Has zoo education, in your opinion, make any headway in educating the public and the differences between the wellbeing of a creature and the survival of a species?… Read More
Yeah. Yeah. I, I’m not sure. I mean, I, I would like to think people, well I would like to think people come to the zoo and start to understand a little bit more about conservation of species and conservation of wildlife and wild places. Not everybody, but some people. Read More
Why do I need to donate to the zoo?… Read More
Now there’s always the zoos, when we talk about LA or Lincoln Park and it’s old days, there’s always some tension between the two groups. PR primarily over sponsorships or something because Metro Parks as a park district sometimes had a sponsorship that, you know, maybe did their hiking trails… Read More
Not everybody, but people knew that it was part of Metro Parks. But so why do you, I’m paying my taxes. Read More
Well just not do stupid things and get in trouble, but we were all, one of the strategies we had is we never, if something bad happened, an animal died or whatever. We, we were right out in, we got in front of the story, not behind it. We, when… Read More
And your relationship with the Zoo Society, they were big help to the zoo. Oh yeah. And both Sacramento and Cleveland, and they both grew tremendously. When I was there. I wasn’t the main person, but I certainly was pushing it. And the Zeus Society in Cleveland, for example, was… Read More
And we basically invited the press in and tried to include him on everything. And we particularly, again, I mentioned it shortly after, maybe a year or two after I was there, we got this outstanding marketing director, Sue Allen. And she was, she knew by first name, every TV… Read More
I wouldn’t say total surprises, but, you know, we met these people and they said, okay, yeah, that sounds great. And then give us a million dollars type or $2 million maybe. It was a big gift back then. So the, the amount was a surprise. I don’t, didn’t have… Read More