A municipal zoo budget is established by the mayor and the city council, and the zoo director gets their funds, and they may get one thing that says zoo, and then the director breaks it out. Or in the private world, it’s, it’s done completely different. Established by a private… Read More
You don’t get any more. We need more that. So there, you’re in the middle, you’re in no one position. So in every curator at every institution, the responsibilities are different. Some of them never do anything with animals. All they do is manage personnel, manage resources, manage schedules, you… Read More
To be very honest with you, there’s not a curator training school that I’m aware of. Okay. Who to make sure that they understand how a budget works. Especially, you know, a private zoo budget and a municipal zoo budget. Read More
Again, tho those talents are kind of diametrically opposed. So trying to find somebody who can manage a budget, manage Chanel, manage a collection, being able also be able to assist in the daily care of the collection. Good. What a spectrum of talent. Okay. And so many of those… Read More
It’s not their talent, it’s not their gift. Okay?… Read More
How many good numbers people do you know, are really great animal care people?… Read More
How many people, how many good animal people, you know, are really good financial management people?… Read More
How to be a budgeter. Okay?… Read More
That’s a great question. You know, the curator gig is probably one of the most challenging positions at a zoo, because, you know, the zoo director, CEO, whatever you wanna call the, the top dog knows their mission is to raise funds, build the community relationships, you know, set the,… Read More
And, you know, the curators today is much like the zoo director today. It, they’re so much different. You know, the poor curator of today not only has to know how to take care of a baby animal, but they have to know how to do a spreadsheet too. Read More
And then that poor curator in the middle. Okay?… Read More
Or what’s your opinion about curators and how they should be trained today and what’s expected of that?… Read More
Is that an issue at all?… Read More
It’s a rehab bird. Okay?… Read More
He should be out flying. Well, it’s missing a wing. Read More
The only option for that eagle is here, or euthanasia, because it can’t live in the wild anymore, because they ran into a power liner. So by shot it, okay. So, but once you explain that to people, some people start figuring it out. Okay. You were talking about your… Read More
Rarely do they say they were wrong. Okay?… Read More
And so, yes, we’ve, we’ve had that, and yes, we’ve had people go, you know, complain to the USDA and like, well, that eagle hasn’t got water. No, the eagle has got water. You just don’t see it from the public perspective. So, you know, you contact those people and,… Read More
But once you tell them the inside story, oh, and people go, why do you have the great American bald eagle in captivity?… Read More
In our marketing guy was all excited about having the Wiener mobile. Well, PETA of course, heard about that. So what did peda do? They contacted the local media. When the media showed up, a person in a pig costume came out, three people with placards came out, stood in… Read More