Interview 2817 – Caption Index: 464
I mean, look, what happened to the facility down in Florida?… Read More
I mean, look, what happened to the facility down in Florida?… Read More
Well, if they don’t, they’re more or less violating what they say they’re supposed to be doing, which is maintaining a population for the future to eventually put back into the wild. And that’s what the SSPs are for, Species Survival Plan. It’s tough to do a Species Survival Plan… Read More
Well, you’ve had to deal with the press, and what would you say to those people in the press or otherwise who still believe that zoos are nothing more than places where they cage animals?… Read More
Well, I wouldn’t necessarily use the term cage, but I think you can certainly say zoos are nothing more than places where they keep collections of captive animals. Some in conditions that are excellent. Some that are not necessarily good, but none that are very bad because they’re controlled too… Read More
I mean, maybe, I don’t know, but I don’t think so. It’s all they can do to pay for their own operations. Read More
Should all zoos have breeding programs?… Read More
Should they or do they?… Read More
Should they?… Read More
You think they’re gonna send money over to Kenya to buy a airplane or an AK 47 to shoot the poachers?… Read More
And even the larger zoos. I mean, when you spend 60 or $70 million to build a penguin exhibit or a polar bear exhibit, and then when somebody says, “Wow, we really need money to prevent these poachers from doing what they’re doing. Or we really need somebody to the… Read More
Do you?… Read More
I’ve told that to other people too, yeah. I don’t wanna hear from you about that. It’s not your job, it’s my job, I’ve got to deal with that. So you go back and do your job and let me worry about doing mine. And I’m sure I’m gonna get… Read More
You were in a big organization, National Zoo, but what do you think smaller or medium size, and this simple zoos can do today to be in involved with wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally, you were at a big firm, what can those other zoos do?… Read More
I think that the small to medium-sized zoos in this country right now are in serious difficulty. They don’t have the revenue to do everything they need to do with their own operation, which means with their collection, with their infrastructure, with their staff. And the fact that they’re a… Read More
Somebody give you that advice?… Read More
Yeah. A couple of times. Who was it, your boss. Read More
Yeah, when I was like, I’m talking to you right now and they’d say, “That’s not your job, do your job.” You told that to other people?… Read More
Then you get species that go post reproductive or go into reproductive senescence, and you can never turn it around so that it’s lost completely then. And it’s happened with primates, it’s happened with hoofstock. It’s a tough, tough situation that we find ourselves in now. And it’s certainly a… Read More
Well, you’re giving some advice, but what’s the most important piece of advice that you received that stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Do your job. Read More