Interview 3934 – Caption Index: 268
First to make the donors happy, I had to build the best animal hospital imaginable in their minds because why would they donate to a dinky little thing?… Read More
First to make the donors happy, I had to build the best animal hospital imaginable in their minds because why would they donate to a dinky little thing?… Read More
Pathologies being done they can happen to view it if they’re there?… Read More
Mm hm. They can talk to the vet, puts a headset on, unless he’s really buried in a serious thing, then he can talk to the tech and there’s cameras, and because sometimes all you can see of what’s goin’ on is the backside of the vet. So, we have… Read More
Boom, over they go (chuckles). Read More
I’ve never seen a hospital in a zoo.” And I go, “Yes, Ma’am. Any professional zoo has got to have a hospital.” “Oh!” I think the public still to this day thinks all we do is keep these animals and throw them a bale hay once in awhile, because our… Read More
They had no idea. One guy said to me, “I’d rather come here than our local hospital. It’s cleaner and better.” Now, let’s digress. The hospital, you said every aspect of the hospital is open to the public and yet people don’t mind it but- I mean, obviously it’s a… Read More
So, when surgery’s being done people could view it if they happen to be there?… Read More
Yep. Read More
We developed first a small hospital building big to deal with all the rehab animals. Because, and by that point, when we built the hospital building, we had not many exotic, I mean, at all, but we had the sheep and we had coyotes and we had our kit foxes… Read More
And we were really lucky that way, but the hospital, people come in and they’re just shocked. They’re shocked at two things. Read More
The thing about hospitals and zoos, I’m digressing, that was the most valuable thing about our hospital was the fact that almost to a person, the first question we would get when somebody would walk into the hospital was, “Does every zoo have a hospital?… Read More
Or what approach did you take to kinda give that visitor a positive or complete experience with them?… Read More
Well, we would build things like we built an exhibit, we built in a weather station that was, so that people would say it was hot. Well, they could get down on the weather station and actually see how hot it was and see rain gauges. But we also built… Read More
Look at that temperature difference. Just simple stuff. I mean, it had to be simple because I didn’t have a lot of money to buy a lot of technology. Read More
You developed an animal care center?… Read More
Well, we weren’t trying to breed. So, they were primarily just making sure that everybody got along in the aviary breeding was not on the agenda. So, in terms of successful people like to see certain ones more. And obviously the bigger brighter ones were always more of a hit… Read More
What were you trying to do?… Read More
Was that your vision, to build the aviary and they will come or?… Read More
Essentially, yeah. Well, I knew they were coming anyway. It was just a place to finally put them because we had built a bunch of behind the scenes holding pens for these things. And I would, but it was nice to be able to actually, and I had a few… Read More
Were certain species more successful of the birds in the aviary than others?… Read More