My interest developed in amphibians- We were on a collecting trip to central Ohio and I brought out a couple of plethodons and one of the herps with me said you can’t keep them alive, they don’t live, and well, for a zoo man, there’s the first challenge. Make them… Read More
They were the group of animals that were being highly threatened. So that general interest started me into a really intensive- I tried a number of species and worked out husbandry, and I even broke it down into sort of three areas that you, temperature zones. Amphibians I found were… Read More
So I’m sorry, that’s a regret, but I should have done more with the camera. The writing could have come later, but now the animals are gone and I may never see them again. I had all the Texas cave species, I had examples of them. Read More
What happened to the salamander initiative?… Read More
-Sparked your interest in amphibians?… Read More
What species- We’ve kind of talked about some things, but what species that you bred were you the proudest of?… Read More
Was it Sumatran rhino or other things?… Read More
I think my most happiest day I had in my life was when our gorillas bred. We had two gorillas born in a nine day period. We had front page for 14 days in the Cincinnati newspapers. We had volunteers involved. It was a fantastic day for the community. I… Read More
So what did they mean to your zoo?… Read More
They meant to our zoo, they meant bongo, they meant okapi, they meant Sumatran rhino. We were a zoo that had no money and they were a good financial resource and they were great to turn the turnstiles. We had some banner years the first years when we exhibited white… Read More
How did this affect the collection at the zoo during your tenure?… Read More
Well, I’ve been referred to as a collector. I won’t deny that. You know, I appreciate diversity. I think that’s the bottom line. I think anybody that even collects stamps appreciates the difference in a particular thing, and I’m very keen in terms of looking at a well-balanced collection, but… Read More
Zoos keep black jaguar. The Bronx Zoo was full of albino snakes. Read More
Why is a tiger any different?… Read More
We just got singled out because they thought we were taking up space, and instead of doing what they should have done from the very beginning, control them as a population, they didn’t, and they’ve now got into private hands and they’ve exploded and they’re all over the place. Read More
And who knows if it isn’t maybe a hidden reservoir?… Read More
They were always larger than the normal tiger. May have been a hidden reservoir for some beneficial factor. They were mutants, certainly, but they did, and they had survivability because they probably learned to hunt at night, so color wasn’t, you know, color wasn’t a problem. color didn’t ward off-… Read More
You can control it, but it’s a part of- What would you do if you had a highly endangered pair of animals and it had a white offspring in your Bengal line?… Read More
Would you euthanize it?… Read More
This I think came from directly from Yuli Seal or indirectly. He never approached me directly with this, but he, you know, he approached Bill Conway and Bill Conway came out and stated that white tigers were freaks, but Bill had a short memory because a few years before that,… Read More