Well, we’re a professional organization with Smithsonian. I said, “Yeah, but we’ve got a science department. You wanna hire PhDs, hire them in the science department, don’t hire me in the animal operation.” Because every single PhD that we had working in the animal operations failed at one point or… Read More
You indicated that you gave your curators carte blanche to get animals, do you think that that’s the case in a lot of zoos or should it be for the curatorial staff to in a sense make the animal deals, or have you found maybe the directors want more of… Read More
Do you have a degree?… Read More
What is it?… Read More
If they say I’ve got a PhD, as far as I’m concerned, that pretty much puts them on the bottom of the list. Read More
Why?… Read More
Have you worked in a zoo?… Read More
Why do you wanna work in the zoo?… Read More
What’s your background as far as wildlife is concerned?… Read More
Zoofari is coming up, how are we gonna do that?… Read More
We’ve got a holiday coming up and so-and-so is coming in from somewhere, we got to give him a tour and on and on and on. And it took my time, it took the time of the curators to have to organize a lot of the stuff. And so I… Read More
Now, let me ask that question then, if you were interviewing the curators for the position Jim’s looking for, or mammal, or bird, what would be the top three qualities that you would wanna see in the a curator today?… Read More
What’s your background with animal management?… Read More
No, I’m trying to remember now, I don’t even have a date on when those Eagles came in, but I think it was probably in 2005 or 2006. So Berry may have been involved in that if he wasn’t, it was Spelman that did it, I mean, she was still… Read More
Today, sometimes directors say they are looking for good curators, what do you think the problem is now?… Read More
I think the problem is that they come in ’cause it sounds like a pretty good job. And curatorial pay is getting better all the time, but I don’t think they have, I mean, unless they’ve come out of the keeper ranks and they’ve actually worked with the collections and… Read More
We talked about getting a yoke back in and the decision was not to because that exhibit was ancient. I mean, it was falling apart and the thought was, it didn’t make any sense to bring in Eagles and put them into an exhibit that had already allowed a fox… Read More
Were you there when Dolly Parton donated Eagles?… Read More
Those went to the Valley, okay. They didn’t go up the Bird House. No, actually I was off that day, so I didn’t meet Dolly Parton and I was kind of ticked off about their… You we working. Yeah, I was. Yeah. Read More
You were instrumental in getting them?… Read More