Doesn’t affect me who ran the zoo 30 years ago, but it does, if you’re working for an institution, you need to know where it came from in order to know kind of where it’s gonna go. And if you can’t learn from your past, you tend to repeat the… Read More
I think that nobody in the zoo today whether it’s keepers, curators, and even directors, I think they’ve lost the historical knowledge of the facility that they’re working for. Read More
I mean, I could guarantee that you could walk up to any keeper in the National Zoo and ask him, who’s DR. Reed?… Read More
Who’s Dr. Mann?… Read More
Who’s Dillon Ripley?… Read More
Well, I never really had a problem when I was working for Reed. I mean, unless it was a major purchase, I mean, unless I was gonna go out and buy a giraffe for $25,000 or something, I mean, if I was bringing in small mammals or having the reptile… Read More
Do you feel that animal keepers today and maybe senior staff know their profession history and if not, why?… Read More
Because they’re not interested really in dealing with the living collection, they’re more interested, I mean, if you want them to write papers, that’s great, but you can’t have them in a situation where they’re more concerned with getting a paper written than they are in dealing with the issues… Read More
I mean, even before I left, it was why are we hiring PhDs?… Read More
Well, we’re a professional organization with Smithsonian. I said, “Yeah, but we’ve got a science department. You wanna hire PhDs, hire them in the science department, don’t hire me in the animal operation.” Because every single PhD that we had working in the animal operations failed at one point or… Read More
You indicated that you gave your curators carte blanche to get animals, do you think that that’s the case in a lot of zoos or should it be for the curatorial staff to in a sense make the animal deals, or have you found maybe the directors want more of… Read More
Do you have a degree?… Read More
What is it?… Read More
If they say I’ve got a PhD, as far as I’m concerned, that pretty much puts them on the bottom of the list. Read More
Why?… Read More
Have you worked in a zoo?… Read More
Why do you wanna work in the zoo?… Read More
What’s your background as far as wildlife is concerned?… Read More
Zoofari is coming up, how are we gonna do that?… Read More
We’ve got a holiday coming up and so-and-so is coming in from somewhere, we got to give him a tour and on and on and on. And it took my time, it took the time of the curators to have to organize a lot of the stuff. And so I… Read More