Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 434
And it seemed to me that right, we’re in the ideal situation to be able to experiment with how do we keep these things in captivity?… Read More
And it seemed to me that right, we’re in the ideal situation to be able to experiment with how do we keep these things in captivity?… Read More
Yeah, I mean, there was one at Highland Wildlife Park, we only in recent years started to get European cranes coming back to the uk. We’re kind of partially on the, on the Flyway for birds migrating from Scandinavia. And my, we had a, the large drive through exhibit where… Read More
But then I left the zoo and nobody carried on with the idea. In Singapore, you know, touched on the flying lemurs. We had a wild population of cool logo in the, in the zoo. Read More
No, I wouldn’t have. So for as far as how my, had my working record progressed in all the different institutions, I think that’s what made me a useful zoo employee. Because not only have I worked with a whole range of different species, I’ve worked with the same species… Read More
Are there programs or exhibits that you would’ve implemented during your time in the profession that just didn’t happen?… Read More
Maybe. But would I have been as useful a curator?… Read More
You know, should I have gone to university?… Read More
Would I have get gotten promotion faster?… Read More
So if you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
Probably pissed off, fewer directors. That might have been a start. Maybe. I think I learned not to burn bridges the hard way, be more of a, a political animal than I was slightly less blunt, probably just rolling out all my character flows. I think that would be the… Read More
And people will say, oh no, you can’t keep this or you can’t keep that. And my response is, no, we just don’t know how to keep that or how to keep this. It doesn’t mean we can’t, it just means we don’t know at the moment. At the moment. Read More
Of course it would. Is it doable? Yes, it is. I sent some pictures recently to a friend and it was ones I, I’d come across online and, but I remember the story and it was that gray whale that they had, that they rescued at, at San Diego SeaWorld. Read More
Almost definitely. Yes. Will it cost a fortune to do?… Read More
But it, for all intents and purposes, it was successful. So we have species today. I mean, I mentioned the flying lemurs earlier. That was one of the projects that I wanted to explore at Singapore. ’cause we had a wild population there. They, you know, their, their captive lifespan… Read More
Is that, you know, are you gonna have to have some kind of backup industry, you know, growing food for these animals?… Read More
And my answer is yes. Is it a huge complex of pools? Yes. Read More
There’s a, a quote which I’m, I might not get exactly right, but, and I think it was in the early 1920s and, and Hornaday the, the first director of the, of the Bronx suit, he said, you know, given our experience, we will never see an adult gorilla in… Read More
So to use the extreme example, could we possibly house a blue whale?… Read More
Why do you say this?… Read More
’cause then you’re getting into dealing with emotions over facts. Your premise is that we can maintain anything. Read More