and if you join the society, that’s community support. So if they don’t wanna spend the money to be part of the society, they’re not gonna go to the zoo. What do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life to. Yeah, I’m not… Read More
Well, what do you know about this profession?… Read More
You’ve been in it for over 40 years?… Read More
Well, I know it’s a profession that was established many years BC in Egypt. And then over in Europe, I mean, people have always been interested in exotic looking animals and exotic looking animals are usually wild animals for the most part. So I mean, zoos have been in existence… Read More
That we’ve already discussed. I mean, they’ve got to start looking at the long range plans and the reality of what’s facing them. Read More
Now, you mentioned that when you came to the zoo the second time and tried to move things along, you were involved in public relations and other things, how important is community support for the zoo and can a zoo survive without the community support?… Read More
I would say if you wanna use the National Zoo as an example of that, I’d say that as much as we need the community support and we would be crazy to lose it, that we’d survive without the community support because we’re a major destination for tourists. And the… Read More
Ideas for the deer or for the zoos?… Read More
For the zoos. Read More
What are those ideas?… Read More
Give me a couple of or we’ve already discussed?… Read More
Well, yeah, they are, but they’re destroying the undergrowth dramatically. For the first time, you can really see the understory in the parks in the Washington, Maryland, and Virginia area. Before you could look into these parks and you couldn’t see through through the woods because there was so much… Read More
I mean, it’s an expensive proposition and even hunting. I mean, if I had to say I’d open up deer season for 12 months and just tell them to just go out and shoot everything. Well, bring back to the zoo as opposed to the wild. But the zeroes face… Read More
All of a sudden they find, well, these animals haven’t been bred five years and it’s tough to get them back into estrous. And in some cases, you can’t get them back there. They’re done, it is a real problem. And I honestly, I don’t have the solution because I’m… Read More
And maybe that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I just can’t see the zoos trying to maintain large groups, breeding groups of animals where San Diego doesn’t want waterbuck, but San Antonio is breeding the heck out of waterbuck, but they can’t find homes for them, so what… Read More
it’s not in our collection plan. Read More
We don’t want waterbuck, I mean, so San Antonio, what do they do?… Read More
They shut the program down. And once they shut the program down, that pretty well is the demise of that species. And when you look at these gamer inches and hear the stories about there’s more plat book in Texas than there is in India. I mean, that says something. Read More
And eventually, it’s gonna happen to the Asian elephant. And until somebody starts to really take the issue of what’s going on with these countries that are causing the demise of these species, it’s not gonna stop. It’s only gonna continue to get worse. Read More
But do we still need zoos?… Read More