I think a smaller zoo- I think if a smaller zoo is to focus its collection, it depends on geography. I think if a small zoo is located in a say, ecological zone that’s quite interesting, like Arizona Sonora desert, they could focus on that aspect of their collection, wrap… Read More
How can small or medium zoos, we talked about involvement, get involved in wildlife conservation today either nationally or internationally?… Read More
How can they play their role?… Read More
Well, I think a smaller zoo, obviously the area they have to be very careful that they don’t use taxation or tax dollars or part of their city budget, but they can rally their community. They can get an interesting project or develop an interesting project and go out to… Read More
Considering financial resources that are available to these small or medium sized zoos, what should be the focus of their collection?… Read More
Well, when I look at the zoo profession as a whole, and I look around, at least in my era, the major outstanding zoos were led by animal men, people that understood- It’s likened to me if you were to take all your finances, all the money that you had… Read More
Well, here you’re investing, you’re putting a invaluable, priceless collection of animals to a person that knows nothing about them. So my opinion is that you have a good animal man at the top, and you have a good support system. This is what boards are for, a board of… Read More
There are medium zoos, small zoos. Read More
In saying that, should the zoo director, the age old question, should the zoo director be an animal man with a good business person behind him?… Read More
Or should he be a good business person with a good animal person behind him?… Read More
Again, how do we make that a cohesive- Take that group and work on ways to develop voting for the proper people, or I mean, the why of why you want to vote in a certain direction?… Read More
Because the power is in the vote, and we don’t have it right now. We’re kind of scrambled out there. I don’t know if I’m, in my own sense, I don’t know if I’m phrasing properly the way I’m- I gotta maybe rethink that for a moment, but if we… Read More
Well, speaking about putting your feet in the fire, what skillset, which you kind of came in with a little, or qualities does the zoo director need today as compared to when you started?… Read More
Well, when I started in the zoo profession, certainly it was an advantage to have passion, passion for my chosen profession. But today I think it’s obviously, in a more complex world, it requires perhaps a little more. When you consider that communities, municipalities are facing problems in terms of… Read More
But now how do you combine all of that and present that to the public?… Read More
That’s one way, and the other is how do you deal with- you know what the real crux of it is?… Read More
Politics. Read More
That’s the trick, and that’s where AZA can play an important role. Read More
What do you think, how can they, how can zoos do that?… Read More
As much as I, I don’t like to manage by committee, I think there’s an area where we really should get some of the sound minds in this organization, define the problems globally and see how we can- We’re certainly not alone gonna solve them, but how we can play… Read More