Interview 30880 – Caption Index: 413
You know, and I’m not being critical, okay?… Read More
You know, and I’m not being critical, okay?… Read More
You know, I don’t, I don’t think zoos analyze their successes and their failures enough. Because zoos don’t fail. Zoo directors don’t fail. When we do it, we do it right. Okay. And don’t tell me I did it wrong because I just spent millions and millions of dollars doing… Read More
And it’s amazing the different stories you hear at the same institution, from the keeper to the director to the curator regarding their facilities. They all have different opinions. They all have, oh, this is very successful. And the keeper says, no, it’s not. So, and we did a huge… Read More
And a lot of zoos are coming in and going, oh, we wanna see your facility. It’s so great going, yeah, it’s wonderful. But let’s, let us also be honest with you and tell you what we would do all over again. Problem is we have a lot of zoos,… Read More
You know, I think a lot of zoos have spent a lot of money on what I call eye wash. Immersive experiences are so important to some zoos. You have, you know, you’re just, you’re, you’re now entering the tropics of whatever, or you’re entering this country or entering this… Read More
Did that, has that really been successful with connecting as much as it is doing an organized program with the kids to really learn more about, you know, gorillas, about any species as opposed to the expensive habitat that’s supposed to be resembling the wild?… Read More
The biggest development, you know, zoos have made a real strong commitment about education programs and really trying to connect. Read More
What would you say has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
And the phrase that one more time, please Mark, What has been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
Will we be able to reintroduce it?… Read More
He can reintroduce it, but it might get slaughtered because, because of, of, of, of the war happening in the country. So I think that’s one of the biggest problems is political unrest. Resources. I think there’s so many nations that are fighting to feed their people and take care… Read More
I mean, how many countries are at war?… Read More
You know, the o capi, you know, alone, it’s just, it’s, it’s range is so limited, you know, and it’s, and the war torn country and how many they’re in captivity. Read More
I don’t know. Will we be able to save it?… Read More
And again, it’s so political. Read More
Because then their natural area has been destroyed, has been overcome by man. ’cause it’s not there anymore. Okay. You know, bison herds, there used to be a lot of those in Nebraska, now they’re just managed herds. Okay. And yes, people sell them meat and things like that. Read More
So will we ever really be successful reintroducing?… Read More
Because, I mean, California condors were released in Arizona at the Grand Canyon, not in California because habitat loss. Read More
Are we reintroducing things back into areas that never had them to begin with?… Read More
So are we moving things?… Read More