I would say if you wanna use the National Zoo as an example of that, I’d say that as much as we need the community support and we would be crazy to lose it, that we’d survive without the community support because we’re a major destination for tourists. And the… Read More
Ideas for the deer or for the zoos?… Read More
For the zoos. Read More
What are those ideas?… Read More
Give me a couple of or we’ve already discussed?… Read More
Well, yeah, they are, but they’re destroying the undergrowth dramatically. For the first time, you can really see the understory in the parks in the Washington, Maryland, and Virginia area. Before you could look into these parks and you couldn’t see through through the woods because there was so much… Read More
I mean, it’s an expensive proposition and even hunting. I mean, if I had to say I’d open up deer season for 12 months and just tell them to just go out and shoot everything. Well, bring back to the zoo as opposed to the wild. But the zeroes face… Read More
All of a sudden they find, well, these animals haven’t been bred five years and it’s tough to get them back into estrous. And in some cases, you can’t get them back there. They’re done, it is a real problem. And I honestly, I don’t have the solution because I’m… Read More
And maybe that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I just can’t see the zoos trying to maintain large groups, breeding groups of animals where San Diego doesn’t want waterbuck, but San Antonio is breeding the heck out of waterbuck, but they can’t find homes for them, so what… Read More
it’s not in our collection plan. Read More
We don’t want waterbuck, I mean, so San Antonio, what do they do?… Read More
They shut the program down. And once they shut the program down, that pretty well is the demise of that species. And when you look at these gamer inches and hear the stories about there’s more plat book in Texas than there is in India. I mean, that says something. Read More
And eventually, it’s gonna happen to the Asian elephant. And until somebody starts to really take the issue of what’s going on with these countries that are causing the demise of these species, it’s not gonna stop. It’s only gonna continue to get worse. Read More
But do we still need zoos?… Read More
Well, I don’t think the zoo’s 20 years down the road are gonna be the zoos that they are today. I think they’re gonna be like Busch Gardens or Disneyland, or I mean, they’re gonna have a collection of animals, but it’s gonna be a theme park because they’re either… Read More
No, I did some consulting work after I retired and we tried to set up a series of classes in Borneo for tourists. And that basically fell through because the company that I was working with went bankrupt. And I did consulting work in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong… Read More
And I don’t honestly think that there’s really gonna be good times again. And that’s just the way I feel because I think there’s so many things that need to be changed in how zoos are looked at and how zoos are run and where the money goes and what… Read More
And she knows me, she knows Fran very well to. Many zoo personnel have after retired continued to be active in the cause for animal welfare. Read More
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