We’re not wanting to do anything that’s gonna cause a problem. If they had a large war chest put together with good lawyers, they could put together a good case for whatever the heck they wanna do in fighting these animal rights groups at least to the point where they… Read More
What do they expect to do?… Read More
Do you have any suggestions for those aspiring to make a difference in the zoo world?… Read More
Well, I think first of all, they have to look back and find out what the zoo world’s all about. Read More
what do we do?… Read More
What do we do with our surplus animals?… Read More
How do we handle the SSPs when they get shut down because there’s no place to put the offspring of these animals that you claim are really important and need to be managed because you wanna save the species?… Read More
I mean, you kind of talking out of both sides of your mouth when you say that. And start to address what’s going on with the animal rights groups and to start seriously looking at the issue of euthanasia of collection animals because they are taking up valuable space and… Read More
I would like them to start addressing where they’re gonna be in 20 or 30 years. I mean, and I don’t think that’s something that zoos in it of themselves need to talk about. Read More
I think the organization that represents zoos has to get the zoos together and start talking about where are they gonna be in 20 years, what are the collections gonna look like?… Read More
I think it’s just an effort to make zoos feel good that they’re trying to maintain elephants. I think it’s a losing battle. I think that the elephant collections in this country, they’re short on females. They’re absolutely short on females that are young enough to produce young. They’ve lost… Read More
And they’ve got the space that they can handle a large number of elephants, especially elephants that are naturally in the wild, very, very social. They’re keeping them in twos and threes or fours. They’re mostly aging. Most of them are gonna produce. They’re dangerous. I mean, we’ve more keepers… Read More
I always talked to my friends that have been in the zoo business and I’ve done this consistently, I said, “Thank God that we came into this profession when we did because it’s gone as we knew it and when it was functional and it was doing a really good… Read More
So what issues would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More
It’s almost shut down now because I’m not sure what the consequences were of the decisions that were made for that, but my understanding was that was supposed to be for surplus males. Read More
And the facility you’re talking about is?… Read More
It’s the one that was, I guess it was sponsored or supported by AZA and it was also supported by Disney, but it was kind of a quasi private organization. And now, they’re down to one elephant, I think, and the people that were running it are gone. I don’t… Read More
So what’s your view about zoos housing elephants?… Read More
And AZA is now saying that if you don’t have three animals, you can’t keep elephants. Okay, so what do you do with the one or two elephants that you’ve got, either bring in another elephant or two or you got to get rid of the elephant. Read More
What do you do with it?… Read More