Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 652
What do you know about this profession?… Read More
What do you know about this profession?… Read More
How long have you been in the profession?… Read More
But who’s counting?… Read More
I retired at 52 years, 10 months, and eight days. Read More
During your long career, what would you consider to be major events that affected zoos in general?… Read More
I think, well, two things. One, before my career was the advent of new exhibitry, open exhibits. I think that was a significant change for zoos to. But I think on just as significant, but maybe smaller scope, was the whole elephant situation where, you know, threats of no longer… Read More
Yeah, well, when the hospital closes down, they’re gonna send you the x-ray machine, you know, when it shows up in pieces, you know, those days are all gone now. And so those are significant events in our industry. Read More
In my experience in setting up new animal transaction guidelines, when we went through the period of distraction in Tampa, the only pushback we ever got were from zoos, not the private individuals. They were happy to accept the new policies and procedures, which were more stringent for them than… Read More
Why did we get zoo pushback?… Read More
I would’ve thought that, you know, private rancher, Mr. X, would’ve pushed back on it. Nah, we’re fine, we’ll do it. So, you know, when the truth comes out, when the actual, actual story comes out, sometimes the information is a lot different than what you’re hearing on the headlines. Read More
Yeah. There are bad zoos too. People forget that part of the equation. But the ones that have done it right, put their money in it and have sustainability. Incredible. And I’m glad they are. They don’t have the ability to hold a lot of species, but what they do,… Read More
And you know what?… Read More
And why?… Read More
Are there bad private individual zoos?… Read More
They misdirected criticism of the private sector. Read More
What are the pluses and minuses of this type of ownership?… Read More
Yeah, I actually think they’ll survive past us, ’cause we all started from them. People forget that, zoos started from private collections. And thank God there were private collections. And the people with means, I think the only Achilles heel there is if the person of means doesn’t have it… Read More
Will they survive the length of time that municipal zoos have?… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
How do you get us up there?… Read More