Interview 2817 – Caption Index: 419
Did you get the proper documentation?… Read More
Did you get the proper documentation?… Read More
And has it been whatever?… Read More
So in to a certain extent, it also became a problem, at least with me and in the registrar at the zoo because I was running into problems even writing species acquisition proposals, because she would question where are you gonna get this thing?… Read More
What’s it gonna cost to build the exhibit for the animal?… Read More
And if you don’t have all that information in your head, when you go out to try to find something because it looks like it might be a neat species to bring in, and then you find out you got to do a permit, but you’ve never done a permit… Read More
And she kept on our butts all the time about the information that she needed, where’s it coming from?… Read More
Who is this guy you’re getting it from?… Read More
How do you think that this of evolve that they don’t know or at least many don’t seem to know the basics of the animal management part?… Read More
Because, I don’t think they really have a understanding of what it takes to run and manage a living collection in a zoo. Read More
And in that entails, not just how do you get animals in and what’s required to do it, but what does it take for you to get this animal in?… Read More
I mean, how much keeper time is it gonna take, what’s it gonna cost to feed this particular animal?… Read More
And it’s a legacy that another 10 years down the road, people won’t even know that the National Zoo even had a pygmy hippo or what is a pygmy hippo because they’ve never seen one and they don’t care. And the same thing happens when you’ve got curators that are… Read More
And then that curator goes, and somebody says, Privost’s squirrels, why are we exhibiting Privost’s?… Read More
Well, we’ve had them for us, so what?… Read More
so the Privost’s squirrels go away and it’s happening more, and more, and more, and we’re losing species in zoos that we’ll never see again because they’re gone from the zoo collections and they’re rapidly disappearing in the wild. Then we were talking about curators having time on the computers… Read More
Have no idea. Read More
It’s like, why do I need to know that?… Read More
Doesn’t affect me who ran the zoo 30 years ago, but it does, if you’re working for an institution, you need to know where it came from in order to know kind of where it’s gonna go. And if you can’t learn from your past, you tend to repeat the… Read More
I think that nobody in the zoo today whether it’s keepers, curators, and even directors, I think they’ve lost the historical knowledge of the facility that they’re working for. Read More
I mean, I could guarantee that you could walk up to any keeper in the National Zoo and ask him, who’s DR. Reed?… Read More