I think we got 31 or 32 Malagasy graduate students that we’re supporting right now. The first, you know, the, the first geneticist, you know, the first cellular geneticist in, that graduated from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, and every one since, have all been Omaha students. So, you… Read More
(laughs) Is there a lemur named after you?… Read More
Yeah, there it is. Read More
What’s the name?… Read More
What did the discovering mean and how did it work to help the Omaha Zoo?… Read More
Well, I don’t. Basically actually, you know, Ed and Dr. Lewis has actually published 21 new species of lemurs. He’s renamed another dozen that were misnamed, whatever. And, and he just submitted for publication, which should be coming out any time now, another six species. So, I mean, probably by… Read More
Ed, when I first hired Ed, Ed came aboard, it was not to work with lemurs or tortoises. It was to work with wild cattle, and wild cattle and an antelope and giraffe. That was kind of my focus and interest though, because, you know, I’ve always been interested and… Read More
And so basically, you know, the project that we hired Ed for went down the drain. (laughs) So we never, never did finish, we never finished up our wild cattle. We did publish the giraffe project and the antelope project and wild cattle project went by the way. But Ed… Read More
And actually the Bronx zoo has, has a piece of footage of film that shows gaur and Kouprey and Banteng all in, you know, all in Cambodia and parts of Thailand and Laos. And so we put together a symposium that met in Hanoi in about 1978 with all of… Read More
Nobody, nobody killed thankfully. But the Kouprey really exists up in that Northeastern corner of Cambodia. And then they, then they seasonally migrate over into Vietnam and into Laos and sometimes into Thailand. The Thais found what they were sure were Kouprey tracks that had come into Thailand and turned… Read More
And we went over to Hang Kong Air because Thai Air, and they wouldn’t give us visas. So we couldn’t get on Air France or Thai Air, so we went on over to Hang Kong Air and pass some hundred dollar bills over the counter. And suddenly we could get… Read More
Could you explain what a Kouprey is, and how did Omaha Zoo get involved?… Read More
Well, the Kouprey, well, the Kouprey is, is another CBSG project in a way. Kouprey is a wild cow from Cambodia with kind of lear shaped horns, very unusual. Big dewlap, obviously acclimated for warm weather and, and humid jungle environments. And the, you know, they’ve always been rare. We… Read More
The work on the cattle, the embryo transfers?… Read More
Not right now, because we’ve done it. We got, we got a big semen bank and embryo bank with, I don’t know, there is probably 25,000 specimens in, in liquid nitrogen that right now the gaur project has been put to bed, but we have got for a period of… Read More
You were involved with some work with the Kouprey?… Read More
Yeah, yeah. Read More
And how they– Well, you know, well part of that, part of that has to do again, we’re going back to a lot of the work that Ulie came down and did, we used to put together these work groups where we’d bring in Dave Wilt and Joelle Howard and… Read More
So a lot of those early successes were collaborative things that had to do with the National Zoo and, you know, and Ulie Seale and, and, you know, not necessarily the, you know, the zoos in Minnesota, although we’ve always collaborated with, you know, everybody. So a lot of these,… Read More
Is that work with cattle and the work that you mentioned, is that still going on in Omaha?… Read More