Gosh, to me it’s everything. Education of our public is why we exist. Certainly you can say, well, you know, know she aquarium is showing a tremendous diversity of animals. You know, telling people about where they came from and why we have them. Sometimes, you know, this is part… Read More
You know, nowadays I, I don’t know maybe ’cause I focus on it more than some people, but the environment is just under attack and it’s like, what will it take to drive people to activism maybe, or concern or voting in a certain way?… Read More
What role is it playing?… Read More
And it always had people swamping them with, they wanted to know things about the dolphins. So I think that yes, we are successful in getting the messages across. We certainly present them in multiple formats, but it’s, you know, it’s what the, what is the audience there for, you… Read More
You know, why are they here and why does Shedd aquarium use them to illustrate, you know, challenges in the wild, for instance. So Why would you say education’s important in aquariums?… Read More
It’s more that they’re having fun. So when animals perform for us, we can get those behaviors on cue. We can ask for it through a various, they call SD, a signal that tells the animal, we want you to do this behavior, then come back and I’ll give you… Read More
Yeah, and why We, we make a major effort to include messages about conservation, education, the animal’s, natural history, you know, their habitat, what they eat in the wild. It’s all part of the message. The the reality is, and it always bothers me, but the reality is the people… Read More
I said, where’s the trainer who taught up to do that?… Read More
Do the shows, what is the value of the shows?… Read More
What would detractors say and what would you hope a show would be doing?… Read More
Do animal shows like the dolphin shows, do they help to get the message across to visitors about a group of animals or conservation?… Read More
They’re gonna be outside the building and you know, was there anything going on?… Read More
Like, well, no, they just kind of come here on a regular basis and they said, we’re not gonna cover it. We’ve seen this before. And they, it was nice that they contacted us and said, it’s not worth our time to come over there. And the thing that was… Read More
Why are they protesting?… Read More
What are you guys gonna do?… Read More
I’m like, well, you know, we just do our regular operations. Read More
If you’re in town, please come by. We wanna show you how we do things. The, the whole deal about the activism was blown up tremendously in the early years with the press. It got to the point that, I remember one time we got a call from probably the… Read More
And I thought, gosh, if we could only do this all the time, they were very level, very level headed group. There are other individuals that, I remember there was a brother of one of our leading animal activists that was always trying to pick a fight. I mean, literally… Read More
It was good, legitimate questions. So I remember one Saturday morning we invited several of their staff in. We sat around a table, we had coffee, orange juice, donuts, and just had a conversation. And it was wonderful, wonderful. We got to see each other’s side. We were able to… Read More
And it wasn’t so much, you know, how we were doing it or the shape or size of our pools or what we’re feeding the animals. Read More