Interview 2817 – Caption Index: 393
Why?… Read More
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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
Now, let me ask that question then, if you were interviewing the curators for the position Jim’s looking for, or mammal, or bird, what would be the top three qualities that you would wanna see in the a curator today?… Read More
What’s your background with animal management?… Read More
No, I’m trying to remember now, I don’t even have a date on when those Eagles came in, but I think it was probably in 2005 or 2006. So Berry may have been involved in that if he wasn’t, it was Spelman that did it, I mean, she was still… Read More
Today, sometimes directors say they are looking for good curators, what do you think the problem is now?… Read More
I think the problem is that they come in ’cause it sounds like a pretty good job. And curatorial pay is getting better all the time, but I don’t think they have, I mean, unless they’ve come out of the keeper ranks and they’ve actually worked with the collections and… Read More
We talked about getting a yoke back in and the decision was not to because that exhibit was ancient. I mean, it was falling apart and the thought was, it didn’t make any sense to bring in Eagles and put them into an exhibit that had already allowed a fox… Read More
Were you there when Dolly Parton donated Eagles?… Read More
Those went to the Valley, okay. They didn’t go up the Bird House. No, actually I was off that day, so I didn’t meet Dolly Parton and I was kind of ticked off about their… You we working. Yeah, I was. Yeah. Read More
You were instrumental in getting them?… Read More
It was a fox. Yeah, but other than that, I was there for the birth of the first Panda that survived, which was, I mean, an incredible thing to be a part of. And I looked back in that and I was heavily involved in all the decisions that were… Read More
But in the long run, it worked out. You say, you made good on your promise to bring giraffes back. Read More
Did you make good to get some Eagles?… Read More
So if you’ve got a job to get position that they’re offering you, I’d be a fool to tell you, don’t take it, stay here.” So when you came in during this time, there was this public reaction or public relations issues, did you have to handle the pressure with… Read More
No, it fell on me for the most part. Even my wife told me when that bald Eagle got killed, I made some assumptions that I probably shouldn’t have made as to how it was killed, what killed it. And I mean, it turned out in the long run, it… Read More