I’ve told that to other people too, yeah. I don’t wanna hear from you about that. It’s not your job, it’s my job, I’ve got to deal with that. So you go back and do your job and let me worry about doing mine. And I’m sure I’m gonna get… Read More
You were in a big organization, National Zoo, but what do you think smaller or medium size, and this simple zoos can do today to be in involved with wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally, you were at a big firm, what can those other zoos do?… Read More
I think that the small to medium-sized zoos in this country right now are in serious difficulty. They don’t have the revenue to do everything they need to do with their own operation, which means with their collection, with their infrastructure, with their staff. And the fact that they’re a… Read More
Somebody give you that advice?… Read More
Yeah. A couple of times. Who was it, your boss. Read More
Yeah, when I was like, I’m talking to you right now and they’d say, “That’s not your job, do your job.” You told that to other people?… Read More
Then you get species that go post reproductive or go into reproductive senescence, and you can never turn it around so that it’s lost completely then. And it’s happened with primates, it’s happened with hoofstock. It’s a tough, tough situation that we find ourselves in now. And it’s certainly a… Read More
Well, you’re giving some advice, but what’s the most important piece of advice that you received that stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Do your job. Read More
Why?… Read More
Because we feel responsible for them, because we brought them into this situation. Yeah, we did, but you have to look in the longterm and this animal is keeping other animals from maintaining their status within the captive collections because you don’t have room for their offspring. And it’s a… Read More
But when the SSPs decide to shut off the breeding program because they don’t have anything to do with the offspring, what does that say about the SSPs?… Read More
And I’m sure the vet, I guess it’s like the doctor’s oath do no harm, but you have to look at the reality of what’s going on. Read More
And I mean, I talked to a lot of people, a lot of friends of mine in the zoo profession about euthanasia, and it’s a word that is absolutely an anthima with AZA, they’ve been talked about and talked to about, what are you gonna do about euthanasia?… Read More
What are you gonna do with the animal rights groups?… Read More
Because it’s something that is gonna face us constantly. And especially with the finite resources that zoos have today, and the fact that it’s hard to get animals in to begin with. You can’t breed some of them ’cause you don’t have the space. So they sit there and take… Read More
They were surplus anyway, we had a lot of them, we don’t need to have these back. They were set up to be euthanized and you’re telling me that that wasn’t right that we can fix them, we can take care of the broken leg, but now, I’ve got a… Read More
What am I gonna do?… Read More
Put it in one exhibit with a sign saying, you know why it’s running around with three legs?… Read More
Well, I think we’ve just gone over a lot. I mean, I think the quality of the curatorial staff needs to improve. I think the quality of the keeper staff is okay. But I think that when you manage a collection of wild, you have to keep in the back… Read More