And how they– Well, you know, well part of that, part of that has to do again, we’re going back to a lot of the work that Ulie came down and did, we used to put together these work groups where we’d bring in Dave Wilt and Joelle Howard and… Read More
So a lot of those early successes were collaborative things that had to do with the National Zoo and, you know, and Ulie Seale and, and, you know, not necessarily the, you know, the zoos in Minnesota, although we’ve always collaborated with, you know, everybody. So a lot of these,… Read More
Is that work with cattle and the work that you mentioned, is that still going on in Omaha?… Read More
Which is that?… Read More
Now you did some work with embryo transplant?… Read More
Embryo transfers, yeah. Read More
Can you tell us something about that?… Read More
And so on a Sunday morning, we just kind of whizzed into the OR in Children’s and did a cut down, got a catheter in place. For some odd reason, the hospital administrator got bent out of shape over that. And they couldn’t fire me because I didn’t work for… Read More
We’re doing in our cardiology study gorillas, you know, with this diffuse myocardial fibrosis that really kind of started in Omaha. And we’d just, we’d never, if you’re willing to ask for help, you’re almost guaranteed to get it. Will you have told us that you, at one time had… Read More
Can you tell me why you had those, that that size of a collection of those type of animals?… Read More
It was (mumbles). If you’ve got, if you’ve got to do genetic management, if you’re going to have, I mean, I, I think I’d maybe just said it, and thought I’d said it earlier. Again, you know, if you’re gonna talk about genetic management, genetic diversity, managing your heterozygosity and… Read More
So now we had three kids at home and all taking a bottle, all in diapers. And Marie took care of them. You know, we just, we would take the dining room table out and set up incubators in the dining room and put the house in quarantine when like… Read More
Would this be possible in today’s world?… Read More
I don’t see why not. (laughs) Although most zoos have facilities. We did this, not because it was necessarily, it was, you know, something fun and interesting to do. We did it because it was necessary. We didn’t have, we didn’t have any facilities in those days. But on the… Read More
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