North in North Carolina? Yes. I think to build, to build the programs, the, the exhibits were in pretty good shape and pretty up to date, pretty well up to date in terms of, in terms of their design. Now that doesn’t mean to say that there weren’t some gaps… Read More
There was, we don’t, there’s nobody living on grounds and certainly not, you know, in a permanent basis. Obviously we, there are times one has to have people on the grounds for in hospital situations or hand feeding, that sort of thing. And, and in emergencies nearly all the staff… Read More
You didn’t think about having a, a home on the grounds That would’ve been impossible being state property?… Read More
Now, when you first came, what were your first priorities when you first came to the zoo?… Read More
I hope. So. Read More
Much the same. I think as, as I’ve just described, you, you know, we talked earlier about being sort of on the grounds every day and of course our, you know, as I said, a zoo was so big North Carolina that it was quite difficult to be on the… Read More
But I don’t, I don’t believe at the end of the day that that’s good management and the way that you build up succession to yourself and that we are talking earlier about, you know, training younger staff, gun curators and so on, is you give those, you give them… Read More
How do you think your staff would describe your management style?… Read More
No, same. I would say it’s, it’s, it’s sort of congenial and inclusive in the, I’m certainly not autocratic. There are times one has to make a decision that people don’t like as, as any, any, well, any director of any organization has to, but I strongly believed in passing… Read More
Same or different?… Read More
Can you describe your management style both at London Zoo and North Carolina?… Read More
So the shops, you know, all your retail needs to be obviously at, at both ends, mo mostly as they’re leaving. Read More
What, what type of visitors amenities would you say are important and are they different?… Read More
In North Carolina because of the size of the zoo, You have to have more of them simply because of the distances between exhibits, so things like restrooms, snack, you know, snack type food, places to sit many and particularly a larger zoo. It, that’s a bit of a challenge… Read More
Yeah, well we have I think a pretty good transport system in, in North Carolina. It was, it was and whip side the same. We, we also had road trams basically in Whipsnade. We have similar buses and road trams in, in the North Carolina Zoo, we’ve talked about overhead… Read More
What exhibit considerations did you have to take into account for visitors viewing species in a large space, and how was it achieved?… Read More
Yeah, I think it did. I mean I could, you know, in managing whipsnade, I mean particularly for the larger mammal species there, it, you know, it really drives into you the importance of space for those animals. But also, but also because the people appreciate animals in space. Now… Read More
Do you feel your history of whip state helped you focus on a philosophy for the large acreage of North Carolina?… Read More
So, which would never have been, never have happened in my time because, you know, because of all the reasons I’ve just said, but there’s 200 million, $200 million, three quarters of which is state money coming in for this new con Asia’s then, then gonna go into Australia and… Read More
How does the funding come to run the zoo?… Read More