But the allied medical community in Omaha is, has been really, really remarkable because we had no facilities, no equipment, nothing in the, in the beginning. And so I kind of went around and made the rounds to the hospitals and the med center and all of that, and all… Read More
What role did your family play in the care of animals and their connection to the zoo?… Read More
Did you bring animals home?… Read More
Oh yeah. Well, luckily I think, as I said, I got really lucky, you know, with a, with a mom who helped me with a lot of that early stuff. But, Marie, you know, I met when we were undergraduate, married just before we got into vet school, was extremely… Read More
And then ultimately, which ultimately led down the road to improvements. And Ron Foreman came in and, you know, the New Orleans Zoo went from being the absolute worst major zoo in the United States, if maybe not in the world. It was absolutely the worst thing I’d ever seen. Read More
You know, we’d have tigers that we’d get up and try to wander off. It was in the days when we were using phencyclidine or Sernylan on everything, angel dust, if you will. And so the good thing about that drug is that they might get up and try to… Read More
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What was that about?… Read More
Well, that was back. That was back when we were, we were trying to get enough information, enough blood samples to, to get some physiological norms and blood norms. And New Orleans Zoo was in real flux then. They lost their, their old director died. They were in real flux. Read More
I put a team together from my shop. Luckily they were good strong Nebraska country boys and, and Ulie put a team together from graduate students and his techs from Minnesota. And we went down and in four days we immobilized, bled, TB tested, took blood samples from, hair samples,… Read More
And so Bob Lacy was director of CBSG for about eight years now, Andy Byers is. I think we’ve got about 600 zoos that are supporting CBSG. But CBSG has worked in all kinds of things, like for the Florida panther, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea tree kangaroos, all over,… Read More
And he could do that with a, you know, he could do that with a group in Indonesia where you had standing generals that on the one hand that were head of a department and down clear down to the line to the, you know, to the, to the ranger… Read More
And didn’t you you have to work with him on a project in New Orleans where you did a lot of tranquilizations?… Read More
So, and so I was, you know, involved with part of that. Then after Houston became the chairman of the committee and the committee was Ulie Seale and myself, we spent a couple of years of not telling anybody what we were doing. And then ultimately brought it to the… Read More
San Diego had spent quite a little bit of money doing, trying to do the same thing. The thing that made it work though, is that it, ISIS was, did not belong to any one organization. You know, if ISIS, or when ISIS was going to be a British, you… Read More
And once they got to know Ulie, and Ulie went and did a lot of work in reproduction in a lot of areas, in a lot of zoos, Ulie had people’s skills such that, you know, that that people would say, okay, I don’t really understand exactly what it is… Read More
I there’s, there’s nobody, there’s nobody, in my opinion, in the zoo world, living or dead, that had even remotely the same impact on the way we do, you know, zoo business and the way we do conservation. And it’s not just the zoo world. I mean, you know, he’s… Read More
Don nodded his head yes. I knew Gladys from about, had known Gladys for about five years or so at that time. And she gave us, she wrote us a check for $10,000 on the spot. And that’s how ISIS got started. Read More
What does ISIS stand for?… Read More
Well, international species inventory system. ISIS is now in, I think, 900, maybe it’s closer now to a thousand zoos around the world. It’s an international database that also has gone well beyond just a census. You know, we’ve got all kinds of computerized data management and censusing and, and… Read More