But I was in a workshop or hovering around the edge of these workshops, they had a, a keeper conference and one of them was about, you know, bringing animals in from the wild. And I’m standing there on the edge and I’m listening to all these self-righteous individuals talking… Read More
I just think it shows a very lackluster approach to developing an animal collection. Even, even from the, the point of view of, as we say over here, getting bums on seats, getting people through the gate. I think it’s a lackluster way of approaching it when they could use… Read More
He sold that, When should animals be taken from the wild Why On as regular basis as possible?… Read More
Is that really what you need to have to bring visitors in?… Read More
And it’s like, is is that really the best use of your resources?… Read More
And it’s the fad element of it. I mean, in this country, maybe elsewhere, CAPY bars are now the big thing, interesting animals, largest rodent cool to look at, aquatic terrestrial, but everybody is desperate to get capi butter. Read More
I think ahead of the curve in as much as what they could do, I absolutely not. No, I think there’s, there’s odd places. Jersey under Mallinson and Darl, they were ahead of the curve because they, they went after species that no one else had even considered the majority… Read More
Would you say that zoos have been ahead of the curve in conservation, breeding of endangered species?… Read More
What is their biggest challenge?… Read More
I said, yeah, I said, and she goes, how, how did you see it?… Read More
I said, well, you know, I said, working with animals, you, you’ve gotta be prepared to be able to pick up on, on incredibly subtle signals, some of which might save your life and other of others of which might give you an indication that there’s maybe a beginning of… Read More
It was big. There was a big shopping all the one side of it was a big shopping area and walking down and I grabbed her gently by the arm and just pulled her to one side and, and there was a, a handicapped person and their parent, I assume… Read More
They might talk about how well there used to be 60 million in America and now we’re, you know, the population’s increasing. There’s a few thousand. But the zoo community, specifically the Bronx Zoo, had a role to play in establishing one of the herds that exists to this day. Read More
You know, the, the concept of studbook had, studbooks had been used for many years with domestic piece of dog racehorses, a Arabian horses, et cetera. But to have stud books for a zoo and a wild animal, you know, the bison was the first. And I mean, and I… Read More
How many people tell if they’ve got American bison in their collection?… Read More
How many people tell that story?… Read More
And how many people are aware of that?… Read More
No, I mean I’ve touched on, I mean there’s the classic ones and which I, I actually think that if you were to grab hold of a couple of baby zookeepers and say, okay, write pop quiz, you know, tell me about the story of European bison. I don’t think… Read More
Can you talk about the bigger conservation stories from zoos, the converters, snails, black-footed ferrets, golden Lion, tamarinds, or some others?… Read More
If you see a herd of, of 20 in a big safari park running across a, you know, 30, 40 acres, that’s European bison, they’re socially adept, they’re in a good welfare situation. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s not stressful or anything like that. ’cause stress is all part… Read More