Interview 2817 – Caption Index: 492
So anyway, and she was a very, very staunch supporter of the zoo and of the elephant exhibit among others?… Read More
So anyway, and she was a very, very staunch supporter of the zoo and of the elephant exhibit among others?… Read More
Does the curatorial staff have a function in fundraising for the zoo or aquarium?… Read More
I think that they have a supportive role in fundraising because when you get your donors, I mean, you have to wine them and dine them and you take them into the zoo and you take them through to the recollections. And the keepers are the first line that are… Read More
How did you find it, enjoy it, didn’t enjoy it, necessarily you?… Read More
I found it enjoyable because I liked the people that I was dealing with. They liked me. I had a lot of dealings with Adrian Morris when I came back, I’ll never forget, I was in the Elephant House when she came in ’cause we were getting ready to start… Read More
Where are we and where did we come from?… Read More
And where are you gonna go and do you wanna be part of that, whatever it is, but they’re gonna have to figure out why we’re here, how we got here and what the problems are that are facing zoos today?… Read More
Because if they wanna get into the profession, man, they’re gonna have to deal with it one way or the other. And if they don’t understand the history, they’re never gonna be able to deal with the future, I just can’t see that happening. Read More
We’re not wanting to do anything that’s gonna cause a problem. If they had a large war chest put together with good lawyers, they could put together a good case for whatever the heck they wanna do in fighting these animal rights groups at least to the point where they… Read More
What do they expect to do?… Read More
Do you have any suggestions for those aspiring to make a difference in the zoo world?… Read More
Well, I think first of all, they have to look back and find out what the zoo world’s all about. Read More
what do we do?… Read More
What do we do with our surplus animals?… Read More
How do we handle the SSPs when they get shut down because there’s no place to put the offspring of these animals that you claim are really important and need to be managed because you wanna save the species?… Read More
I mean, you kind of talking out of both sides of your mouth when you say that. And start to address what’s going on with the animal rights groups and to start seriously looking at the issue of euthanasia of collection animals because they are taking up valuable space and… Read More
I would like them to start addressing where they’re gonna be in 20 or 30 years. I mean, and I don’t think that’s something that zoos in it of themselves need to talk about. Read More
I think the organization that represents zoos has to get the zoos together and start talking about where are they gonna be in 20 years, what are the collections gonna look like?… Read More
I think it’s just an effort to make zoos feel good that they’re trying to maintain elephants. I think it’s a losing battle. I think that the elephant collections in this country, they’re short on females. They’re absolutely short on females that are young enough to produce young. They’ve lost… Read More
And they’ve got the space that they can handle a large number of elephants, especially elephants that are naturally in the wild, very, very social. They’re keeping them in twos and threes or fours. They’re mostly aging. Most of them are gonna produce. They’re dangerous. I mean, we’ve more keepers… Read More