I think there’s a role for every zoo regardless of size, in conservation. It’s just picking your efforts and determining what you can make the contribution to. There is in Wheaton, Illinois, a teeny tiny little park district zoo called the Cosley Zoo. It’s largely an assortment of native animals… Read More
Is it cold?… Read More
Is there something wrong with it?… Read More
And I think of that reflecting on the number of bursts that we had at Lincoln Park Zoo and how we would labor over, is she gonna take care of it?… Read More
Is it gonna be all right?… Read More
Is it going to nurse, isn’t it gonna nurse?… Read More
Zoos today in terms of their day-to-day operations and day-to-day management are largely business decisions. Read More
What are the economies that we can realize?… Read More
What kind of relationships can we build with other organizations or with corporations, or with companies or with foundations to ensure a free flow of resources to us, whether that’s material goods or finances, that’s a difficult challenge. It really takes a unique skillset. It takes a unique set of… Read More
What can I do to do some of the things that you do or have done?… Read More
And I say to them, get a good education. Volunteer or get internships, or get temporary positions in institutions where, in institutions or organizations or facilities where you’re going to get some real on the ground experience about animals and how to interact with animals and just be persistent, you… Read More
As AZA president, you had issues you had to deal with at that time for that period of history, what would you say today are the largest problems, biggest problems that zoos are having to deal with?… Read More
What skill set or qualities would you say to someone they should have to get a job?… Read More
What would they have to bring to the table that might help them go into a profession you’ve spent your entire life in?… Read More
As I have said to many people in many different ways, over the course of time, how did you get where you are?… Read More
Well, zoological collections in 2016, continue to shrink and they continue to shrink because zoos by and large don’t do as good a job as they could managing some species in captivity. The collections will continue to shrink because animals from the wild no longer will come into a captive… Read More
Are there major directions that zoos should be taking?… Read More
Well, my major directions zoos should be taking today and there’s been some effort being made in that direction is to ensure that the populations of animals that we currently have in captivity is self-sustaining. And that means that not only must we work with each other here in North… Read More
Can this be changed?… Read More
It’d take a tremendous effort on the part of educators. It would take a tremendous effort in terms of leadership worldwide. I think those of us who are still involved in conservation continue to make whatever efforts we can make at whatever level we can make them, and hope that… Read More