Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 308
Oh gosh. I would venture to say probably when we started acquiring the marine mammals, a tremendous amount of animal, right?… Read More
Oh gosh. I would venture to say probably when we started acquiring the marine mammals, a tremendous amount of animal, right?… Read More
But during your time at the Shedd Aquarium, what had, what did you hope to accomplish but you were unable to finish?… Read More
We worked with the octopus, very intelligent animal, but getting the trainers to interact with the Aquarius was a bit of a challenge. They don’t necessarily speak the same language. So that was in progression, I presume it’s still going, that they’re looking for things to accomplish together. The, the… Read More
Oh gosh. There were many things that we were working toward. I guess if I had to say one thing as when I became the director over the entire animal collection, I was looking for ways to meld the marine mammal department with the Fishes Department cross training, for instance,… Read More
I’m not sure. You know, like they don’t know the origin. So, you know, if there’s any question, I usually avoid it. I usually say, you know what they don’t know and it’s, it may not be the best. So, but we promote good fisheries, you know, ones that we… Read More
And the best thing is the fish quality is so good. My wife, who would never eat fish, loves the fish now every week. It’s a good fresh product. I don’t know how they do it. We’re far from any ocean. There’s some that come from the Great Lakes like… Read More
So well worth it feels good to do the right thing. Jim, you’ve been with the Shedd very, very long time. Read More
And if you’re in a restaurant, you ask the wait staff person it, where did this come from?… Read More
I don’t know that it’s got widespread acceptance. Most people are unfamiliar with it. But there are websites where you can actually, you know, call up an app and if you’re in a restaurant it’ll tell you, you know, these fish are okay. Unfortunately it gets into some fisheries are… Read More
It’s just, you know, it’s noxious and to some degree it’s, it’s not good for animals. So. Read More
So the Shedd has been successful in talking to people about the type of fish that are endangered and what they could eat?… Read More
Yes, yes. We shouldn’t Be, Yeah, that one, we have a whole program that we tried to develop our own little wallet card, but we realized, you know, Monterey Bay Aquarium has taken the lead on this. They have a staff of, I wanna say 15 or 20 people that… Read More
Well, you know, it gets into the, the overflow issues, you know, with a heavy rainfall, the combined sewer and street overflow, I mean water where unfortunately some houses would have an overflow into their basements where you might have sewage coming up type of thing. Just kind of informing… Read More
But I’m like, yeah, well what about the rest of the neighborhood?… Read More
So it’s, you know, it that’s, you know, one of those things that I think enlightens people, hopefully they practice, you know, what we’re advising them. Plastic pollution is a huge thing. Now. We’ve tried to work with some municipalities as far as getting rid of plastic bags, like at… Read More
That was part of a newer conservation department and that would’ve been, that probably kicked off by the former curator of fishes, Roger Ec. He got into the very early stages of developing a conservation department. And out of that became not only conservation of resources, but also conservation of… Read More
Why is that of concern?… Read More
But also they’ll come and they’ll grab your arm. They kind of come up here and they’ll feel you and they’ll allow you to pet them a little bit. Of course, when you feed ’em, they usually back into their exhibit. But it’s a, it’s a challenging animal and they’re… Read More
There’s special life support that’s required for an octopus. Not all do well, you know, in the confines of our exhibitory, either some thrive and they’re all over the place. Others just kind of hold up in a corner and look kind of shriveled up, which is, you know, not… Read More
How did that all come about?… Read More