Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 387
What would you say had been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
What would you say had been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
I would like to see more a sister relationship with like Ang Mai or some of the Chinese zoos would’ve helped us with the Pangolin consortium. Now we dealt with African penguins, but their information, their technology, their way of caring for the Asian pangolins they were successful with, we… Read More
My insurance is gonna go way up. So again, it was a, a budget constraint. It give them the cost of, of operating a zoo. Now, utility costs, gas costs unfortunately and other things, it, it’s a burden to a certain extent. Read More
And the, the CEO and the board has to look at it and say, are we willing to make that commitment?… Read More
If something happens, you know, what’s, what’s gonna be the deal?… Read More
You know, I have to insure them while they’re over there. Read More
Yeah, again, I think it’s a matter of cost and commitment and budget. You know, when, when you’re spending tons of money building big, huge exhibits and you’ve got maintenance additive costs that you’re doing, you gotta look at where your budget’s at and how much you can commit. Because… Read More
And you know, the one thing I ran across the most was my, my institutions would look at it and go, what’s my insurance cost?… Read More
I don’t know that. So I say there’s a few out there that are successful, but I don’t know that the majority of them are without real continued management in the field of these releases. And that’s a tough thing to do. You know, it takes a lot of money. Read More
Is it successful? It may be successful in maintaining the species out there, but is the, is the C Puerto Rican toad expanding and living on its own without the supplemental things?… Read More
Why don’t war zoos have sisters zoo relationships, import Sister zoo relationships, like outside of the country?… Read More
How successful do you think zoos or aquariums have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
Well, there’s a few success stories that we know of Black-footed fair. I don’t know that the Puerto Rican toad is successful. I mean, when I was at the zoo, we, we sent like 23,000 over the years I was there. Puerto Crested total, it’s back to Puerto Rico. I… Read More
But we let public perception get in there. And like I said, the budget is a commitment and if you’re gonna commit to elephants, man, you gotta commit. Read More
And we said, no, we can’t right now. Let’s get ’em outta here. And a lot of zoos did that. I love the idea that, you know, these people go send ’em to the sanctuary. Well I know a couple sanctuaries, they don’t have the veterinarian care that they should. Read More
And, and two, I know my CEOI can’t blame him at the time, looked at our budget, said, can we commit, can we build what’s proper that we think will make good welfare?… Read More
The heck with the public’s perception on that. I’m gonna educate them about that. And the other thing is, let’s look at elephant populations throughout Africa. There’s only a few countries where they’re safe and where the populations are big. And the rest of ’em, you know, without people like… Read More
Getting close to the same. But what they heard was elephants need to walk 60 miles and they, they get this, they get to this age and that’s not happening in zoos. And that influences them. And so we got scared. And again, because we weren’t willing to launch a… Read More
Well, how old are elephants living in zoos?… Read More
Well, it’s about 47, 50 years, not 60. Read More