Interview 4487 – Caption Index: 443
What do you see 40 years from today?… Read More
What do you see 40 years from today?… Read More
Does conservation, is education, is the research aspect?… Read More
Do they all have a place or should one be more emphasized for the future of the zoos as we move forward?… Read More
In my view, one of our major obligations is interpretation. We have a role to play in informing people, both formally and informally in education programs, in whatever activities are on the zoo grounds. We have an obligation to those animals that we hold to make contributions to conservation, more… Read More
Have you really experienced, have you really experienced what animals in captive, how animals are maintained in captivity?… Read More
And do you really understand how they can be ambassadors for their own kind, and the good that comes out of that?… Read More
The understanding, the concern for the environment. Most animal activists that I’ve encountered, and those that I’ve done one-on-ones with in those groups that I’ve tried to engage are so, almost rabid in their desire to see an end to elephants, to killer whales, to zoos, that they’re beyond reasoning… Read More
So for the future of zoos, is there one thing that’s potentially more important?… Read More
I understand it’s a very dramatic, but I think it’s a, as they say, it’s a, maybe a two-day news cycle. And then after that people forget. Read More
What do you say to these animal activists or other people who don’t believe zoos should be in existence?… Read More
I think they haven’t taken, I say to them, do you really understand what you’re saying?… Read More
You ask whether I think that this is the end of it. I think it’s just the beginning. These were two huge, two huge accomplishments for animal rights activists, largely as a result of disgruntled employees and insider information that may or may not be true as we’ve said before. Read More
Has this, was this a good response to elephant conservation in your opinion?… Read More
I viewed the burning of ivory with mixed emotions. I understand why it’s done. It’s done to make a very dramatic statement. It’s done to demonstrate primarily to poachers and those who buy poacher materials, that there is no hope for the future of ivory. But then I look at… Read More
Do you think that there are these, there are additional things, that they will be attacking zoos for and what’s the philosophy of a zoo then?… Read More
Or do you think they’ve just picked certain species and we’ll end it at that?… Read More
No, I think that, I think elephants, elephants were the first cause chip, chip, chip, chip, chip, killer whales were second, killer whales, probably with some good reason if you understand anything about where they came from and what happens to the group once they’re taken out of nature, it… Read More
As someone who grew up with elephants in circuses, both as a spectator and a behind the scenes up close to elephants, I think it’s an American tragedy that Ringling Brothers has taken the elephants off of the circuit. I think it’s a tragedy because people who ordinarily wouldn’t ever… Read More
I think it’s a tragedy. And I think it’s one that we will, some of us will regret that we didn’t take a stronger stand for the exhibition of elephants and the use of elephants in demonstrations like that. Animal rights groups have been against killer whales, have been very… Read More
They have to be viewed as living documents. They’re subject to change, they’re subject to availability. They’re subject to the vagaries of animal availabilities. They’re subject to changing values and changing more it says as evidenced, both by elephants and by killer whales. And you said elephants to other questions,… Read More