And you just go in, shut the door behind you, it’s pitch black, and just stand here for a few minutes until they kinda calm down. And then you started grabbing and you grab whatever you could, and you made sure you grabbed an antler and then you grab them… Read More
And what we want you to do, we’ll pay you 50 bucks is we’ll put a pat on your back and you’re gonna start running and we’re gonna shoot the dart at you.” And I remember I said, “Well, yeah, but you’ve only got the pat on our back, what… Read More
And it really made a huge, huge advancement in the way you manage a collection. With great apes, before you’d have to try to train them to come up and get to you. But half the time you couldn’t do that, you had to get them into a squeeze cage… Read More
Were you just learning on the job?… Read More
It’s interesting question. Read More
Did we learn on the job?… Read More
Were you part of it or were you just observing them?… Read More
I wasn’t part of it in the first master plan projects, which was renovating the upper hoofstock area, and also when they built what they called Hardy Hoff and delicate hoofstock buildings, which currently now ha has the panthers and the first renovation of the Elephant House, the first renovation… Read More
Do you feel it was dangerous?… Read More
Were they showing you what to do?… Read More
It was a trust for orangutans, and it was set up to protect not only the orangutans in the wild, but also to locate and bring together the captive population of orangs. And he also worked with then, I can’t remember her name. There was a woman in Hong Kong,… Read More
And so he was more or less persona non grata with a number of people because of that. But he was a far thinking individual because a lot of what he had started carried on into the SSPs and the whole cop population management situation. Read More
And you indicated that Ernest walker and Ted Reed were interested in you and were you involved in any of these renovations of these exhibits that you said were going on?… Read More
Did they ask your input or were they just telling you what was going on?… Read More
In a sense they did because Ted had, I mean, by this time in the early 60s, Grimmer had left and I can’t really remember what his reason was, but it had to do with he wanted to get promoted to a different position. I can’t really remember what it… Read More
What are you talking about?… Read More
So Dr. Reed had a vision for the zoo. Yes. Read More
Did he share it with you as a keeper, or did he share it with his staff, or did you just glean this from what was going on?… Read More
I think he shared it with his senior staff, and I don’t wanna blow my own horn here, but he shared it with me and so did Grimmer. Read More
And because the last building that was completed was the Small Mammal Building, and that was in WPA period, which was in the mid 30s, the Elephant House was built during that period, the Bird House was built during the mid 20s, the Monkey House was built in the early… Read More