Ed, when I first hired Ed, Ed came aboard, it was not to work with lemurs or tortoises. It was to work with wild cattle, and wild cattle and an antelope and giraffe. That was kind of my focus and interest though, because, you know, I’ve always been interested and… Read More
And so basically, you know, the project that we hired Ed for went down the drain. (laughs) So we never, never did finish, we never finished up our wild cattle. We did publish the giraffe project and the antelope project and wild cattle project went by the way. But Ed… Read More
And actually the Bronx zoo has, has a piece of footage of film that shows gaur and Kouprey and Banteng all in, you know, all in Cambodia and parts of Thailand and Laos. And so we put together a symposium that met in Hanoi in about 1978 with all of… Read More
Nobody, nobody killed thankfully. But the Kouprey really exists up in that Northeastern corner of Cambodia. And then they, then they seasonally migrate over into Vietnam and into Laos and sometimes into Thailand. The Thais found what they were sure were Kouprey tracks that had come into Thailand and turned… Read More
And we went over to Hang Kong Air because Thai Air, and they wouldn’t give us visas. So we couldn’t get on Air France or Thai Air, so we went on over to Hang Kong Air and pass some hundred dollar bills over the counter. And suddenly we could get… Read More
Could you explain what a Kouprey is, and how did Omaha Zoo get involved?… Read More
Well, the Kouprey, well, the Kouprey is, is another CBSG project in a way. Kouprey is a wild cow from Cambodia with kind of lear shaped horns, very unusual. Big dewlap, obviously acclimated for warm weather and, and humid jungle environments. And the, you know, they’ve always been rare. We… Read More
The work on the cattle, the embryo transfers?… Read More
Not right now, because we’ve done it. We got, we got a big semen bank and embryo bank with, I don’t know, there is probably 25,000 specimens in, in liquid nitrogen that right now the gaur project has been put to bed, but we have got for a period of… Read More
You were involved with some work with the Kouprey?… Read More
Yeah, yeah. Read More
And how they– Well, you know, well part of that, part of that has to do again, we’re going back to a lot of the work that Ulie came down and did, we used to put together these work groups where we’d bring in Dave Wilt and Joelle Howard and… Read More
So a lot of those early successes were collaborative things that had to do with the National Zoo and, you know, and Ulie Seale and, and, you know, not necessarily the, you know, the zoos in Minnesota, although we’ve always collaborated with, you know, everybody. So a lot of these,… Read More
Is that work with cattle and the work that you mentioned, is that still going on in Omaha?… Read More
Which is that?… Read More
Now you did some work with embryo transplant?… Read More
Embryo transfers, yeah. Read More
Can you tell us something about that?… Read More
And so on a Sunday morning, we just kind of whizzed into the OR in Children’s and did a cut down, got a catheter in place. For some odd reason, the hospital administrator got bent out of shape over that. And they couldn’t fire me because I didn’t work for… Read More
We’re doing in our cardiology study gorillas, you know, with this diffuse myocardial fibrosis that really kind of started in Omaha. And we’d just, we’d never, if you’re willing to ask for help, you’re almost guaranteed to get it. Will you have told us that you, at one time had… Read More