Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 979
The zoo’s contribution to society today?… Read More
The zoo’s contribution to society today?… Read More
Not because I love animals, not because it’s my job. It’s something that really, I wish every town and village could have, but they can’t. It provides, as I told you, a word that I call love. The problem with the world today is, is if we loved each other… Read More
I’m talking about some countries, I’m not gonna mention. See how many animals you can find that country running around, dogs, cats, whatever. None. I was always told when I got my little Petie, my Petie, my first parakeet as a little boy, at five years old, before I got… Read More
I’d be an idiot to do that. But you know who suffers?… Read More
She suffers, the elephants suffers, And you and I that go along with it, we suffer. So no one’s winning on this. Read More
What do you see as the principle contribution that zoos can make in society today?… Read More
I know Cynthia that might have some financial problems. I can’t, I’m not gonna be hypocrite. I can’t sit here and send money to somebody that disagrees with everything we do here. Read More
Are you kidding me?… Read More
So what do we do in all this case?… Read More
We better do something with the elephant. Read More
You just can’t go, “Let’s put all the elephants in the wild.” Let’s, what’s happening now in Africa?… Read More
I mean, we’re trying to improve and try and do better with them. We’re trying to put them in bigger places. We’re trying to breed the African elephants to teach people. Read More
Ringling, I know they don’t like that probably, but y’all I don’t care, knock Ringling all you want to, if you got that kind of money to do elephant research on the Asian elephant, which has gone from what?… Read More
Or the African elephant in 1978, I think I’m right about this. The African elephant is now going down to maybe 300,000. They were 1.4 million or something. I don’t know, way back in 78. And now the Asian elephant, I understand now, it’s gone down to, I don’t know… Read More
But then as I said, Jack, calmed down a minute here, buddy. You know, they’re right. You know, we, I don’t want to get rid of Bongo, whatever it was, one of the gorillas. You know, I, this is terrible. He’s born here. But then I said, he couldn’t be… Read More
I think that Tom Stalf who’s my new CEO, or two years here, he was up in NABI zoo. They had took his elephants. I think, I know they did. So I guess if you have the proper place for the elephants and we hope to make this second place… Read More
Why all of a sudden, they don’t like elephants?… Read More
Would I like to see all the animals in the world, out in the wild, it’d be great, wouldn’t it?… Read More
But the earth, the earth will have to switch before that ever happens again. The earth will have to disappear and come back. Well, I hope it doesn’t happen in my lifetime, but maybe later on, millions of years from now it’s gonna happen. But then you make your own… Read More
I don’t do drugs. I just liked to watch the leaf cutter. I’m fascinated by creatures in the ocean, but elephants are, whether we like it or not, an icon species. I don’t care what you say. The panda is. Certain animals, I’m sorry to say, the koala, they’re icon… Read More