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Who’s Dr. Mann?… Read More

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Who’s Dillon Ripley?… Read More

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Well, I never really had a problem when I was working for Reed. I mean, unless it was a major purchase, I mean, unless I was gonna go out and buy a giraffe for $25,000 or something, I mean, if I was bringing in small mammals or having the reptile… Read More

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Do you feel that animal keepers today and maybe senior staff know their profession history and if not, why?… Read More

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Because they’re not interested really in dealing with the living collection, they’re more interested, I mean, if you want them to write papers, that’s great, but you can’t have them in a situation where they’re more concerned with getting a paper written than they are in dealing with the issues… Read More

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I mean, even before I left, it was why are we hiring PhDs?… Read More

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Well, we’re a professional organization with Smithsonian. I said, “Yeah, but we’ve got a science department. You wanna hire PhDs, hire them in the science department, don’t hire me in the animal operation.” Because every single PhD that we had working in the animal operations failed at one point or… Read More

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You indicated that you gave your curators carte blanche to get animals, do you think that that’s the case in a lot of zoos or should it be for the curatorial staff to in a sense make the animal deals, or have you found maybe the directors want more of… Read More

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Do you have a degree?… Read More

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What is it?… Read More

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If they say I’ve got a PhD, as far as I’m concerned, that pretty much puts them on the bottom of the list. Read More

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Why?… Read More

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Have you worked in a zoo?… Read More

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Why do you wanna work in the zoo?… Read More

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What’s your background as far as wildlife is concerned?… Read More

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Zoofari is coming up, how are we gonna do that?… Read More

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We’ve got a holiday coming up and so-and-so is coming in from somewhere, we got to give him a tour and on and on and on. And it took my time, it took the time of the curators to have to organize a lot of the stuff. And so I… Read More

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Now, let me ask that question then, if you were interviewing the curators for the position Jim’s looking for, or mammal, or bird, what would be the top three qualities that you would wanna see in the a curator today?… Read More

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What’s your background with animal management?… Read More

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No, I’m trying to remember now, I don’t even have a date on when those Eagles came in, but I think it was probably in 2005 or 2006. So Berry may have been involved in that if he wasn’t, it was Spelman that did it, I mean, she was still… Read More

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