And she said it was terrible. I couldn’t, I couldn’t put him down. I, you know, he’d be all relaxed and I’d want to just take him and go to bed and I, you could take two hands off and he would hold you with his feet, and then if… Read More
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I very, and, and seemed very comfortable with that. And many years later I was talking with her, you know, thinking about things and, and wanting to kind of explore how, how would you know, you looked like you were having a good time interacting with the gorilla. Read More
And so we developed a, a very particular way of restraining the animal, or you’d grab one back leg, the other back leg, put an elbow on each arm and hold the animal so somebody could take a swab. And, and that meant that the command to his head was… Read More
Yes. Your daughter had a perspective about baby gorillas. My younger daughter backing up, we sometimes when we had pediatrics, even when I was at Lincoln Park, you had a very accomplished nursery staff that could take care of whatever they needed in general. But when it got to be… Read More
How did, how did that work? She said, oh, it worked great. We, we put the cast on her. The biggest thing we were worried about was that it would get an infection, a bacterial infection, and we weren’t gonna be able to see it. She wasn’t gonna be able… Read More
Maybe we ought to cover it. And they said, well, let, let’s just, let’s just do it one more time and you know, we won’t have to put the big cast on, we’ll just put a short one on. And they came in the next morning and the gorilla was… Read More
And it was some time later when I ran into her at one of these meetings and, and asked, so what, whatever happened with that?… Read More
’cause I think internal would, she said, no, it has nothing to do with that. It’s, I think it may have been a spider bite. The animal has a big patch of skin that Necros died and we have to do a skin graft and, and you can’t disturb those. Read More
You know, gorillas have always surprised me with what you can get away with, but what are you, are you are, are you trying to fix a fracture?… Read More
And one was, I, I had talked with veterinarian that she called me up and, and asked, have you ever put a cast on an adult gorilla?… Read More
That was when I was at Lincoln Park. I used to, we used to, I used to host a nutrition meeting and you know, as, as we, as we had those meeting, as those meetings evolved, I chose topics that were of interest to, that I thought was that were… Read More
And I said, well, I haven’t, but I, I wouldn’t let that stop me. Read More
Can you relate some very specifically, the gorilla with the removable cast?… Read More
Not really, you know, but, but I, I think it’s, you know, if you look at, if you look at what our job was, what our responsibilities were, and then the things that we were accomplishing, I think you’ve got this sort of, you know, steady progression. And then, you… Read More
Does your role or responsibilities change in this position Like the day before and the day after the position changed?… Read More
Well, the, the veterinary services part, and again, I’m can’t remember exactly the, the chain of events, but I think it happened around the time that we changed the name of the department to veterinary services. And, and I think it was a recognition of, you know, I, not necessarily… Read More
How does this promotion come to you?… Read More
And, and, and so we were looking at gorillas, chimps, orangs, but instead the animals and the populations that have been mostly impacted are carnivores, big cats, canids. It’s gone through a few zoos as a few zoo gorilla populations, but we haven’t seen it in other great apes. And… Read More
What importance should a veterinarian put on infectious diseases and how they may affect the zoo population?… Read More