Interview 5420 – Caption Index: 685
Those are three that come to mind. Read More
Those are three that come to mind. Read More
Well since I’m not active in it anymore in the last 13 years, only having attended two conference. I can’t really address it honestly. I know it’s much more complex. The old AAZPA was mostly animal people, directors, curators. And today, it’s marketing, fundraising, development, human resources, legal aspects, very… Read More
Are there any zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Who are they and why do you admire them?… Read More
And if they can’t afford it, then they should send their elephants to a zoo that can. Read More
Do you think zoos are doing enough to help and conserve the wild as they should be doing?… Read More
I’m aware of St. Louis Zoo doin’ more than they’ve ever had. They’ve got 12 research centers in the country or wilderness areas. And each year, there’s more money gettin’ thrown in that direction and I think that is a national phenomena and I hope that it continues. But I… Read More
How would you say AZA today compares with the AAZPA of 30 years ago?… Read More
Whereas potentially, as some people might say that money could go toward helping animals in the wild?… Read More
Well I think zoos should do both. I don’t think every zoo has to have elephants. But I think if the zoo does have elephants and choose to have elephants, then they should give ’em the largest holding area that they can and that they should participate in a national… Read More
What’s your view regarding zoos maintaining elephants and how it should be done correctly, if possible?… Read More
And the second part of that is zoos spend multi-millions, tens of millions of dollars on some of these elephant exhibits. Read More
Is it worthwhile to do that?… Read More
Should it be just regional or should it be endangered or should just be holding species that are endangered but can’t breed for SSP or should they have the same kinda collection philosophy as has a large?… Read More
I think that each of possibilities would be suitable for any one zoo. A small zoo like the Arizona Desert Museum is exhibiting animals only of the Sonoran Desert from Arizona and Mexico, no place else. It doesn’t have worldwide collection. The Topeka Zoo is really a small zoo, yet… Read More
Is education doing any good particularly in boosting the images zoos among the public in the face of anti-zoo groups?… Read More
Well in St. Louis, the anti-zoo group is invisible. It’s not there. So I can’t speak from a national level. Because in St. Louis, we’re not exposed to it. It’s not a problem whatsoever. You talked about individual animals but elephants. Read More
How effective are they?… Read More
Well they are very effective at the gate. We brought in a white tiger one time from the National Zoo and we had a big, big attendance increase. We brought it in during the slow time of the year. We brought in a white alligator one time. That was a… Read More
When you have these small and these mediums zoos, should there be a focus of collection for these small and medium zoos?… Read More