Interview 4973 – Caption Index: 345
(Ed laughs) When we received the giant panda?… Read More
(Ed laughs) When we received the giant panda?… Read More
Yes, we did develop a good relationship, following, wondering if they could somehow get in on the action. You were also chair of the rhinoceros SSP program. Read More
How important were and are the Texas ranchers for long-term rhino conservation?… Read More
I got back home, I called David in London and I said, David, what if, when you’re on your way to Mexico City with the giant panda, you stop in Cincinnati, and with the increased attendance, we raised the money to build a facility in Mexico City to house your… Read More
You know, expand their facility so they can house your male?… Read More
And he thought about it for awhile, and then he puts a lot of checks and balances. You know, he didn’t want us going off and raising a bunch of money to build a new facility in our zoo, but he wanted to make sure those funds were designated, and… Read More
As an aside, when you got the giant panda, did all of a sudden you discover you had a lot of friends?… Read More
Do you feel the funding was well spent and how did that evolve?… Read More
Well, I attended a giant panda conference with Warren Thomas in Beijing. And my reasons for going to China were not necessarily involving at that time giant pandas, they were involving the lesser panda, the red panda. I was gonna meet with officials to find out how we could acquire… Read More
It was a local zoo show that Bill Hoff, who was then the director, hosted along with our veterinarian, and I was to film things and they were gonna use that as part of their TV experience, the way zoos collect animals. So we went all along the east coast… Read More
That has changed today thankfully. You put a lot of resources into having a giant panda at Cincinnati for a short amount of time. Read More
How difficult was that?… Read More
When I was at the zoo, I was a very fortunate individual. I was enamored with life, it could be an insect or it could be an elephant. I had no specific animals that I was- if I did specialize in an animal, or I took a great interest in… Read More
Was this your idea?… Read More
Could it be done today?… Read More
Well, we were building a new nocturnal exhibit in Cincinnati, and I had visited Houston at a conference, and Houston was displaying vampire bats. Again, I know vampire bats were displayed by or kept by Dent Myers many, many years ago, but I hadn’t seen, his were the first vampire… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
I’d like to be remembered as he cared, and that he took the Cincinnati Zoo from one of the worst, one of the lowliest zoos in the country when he came in to one of the top rated zoos in the country. Read More
When you were at Cincinnati Zoo, did you have a favorite animal?… Read More
And ultimately, we may be the ones to face extinction if we’re not very, very careful. And there doesn’t seem to be the public will to change these things, and somehow we’ve got to be thinking politically, and I don’t know how we do that without getting involved in areas… Read More