Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 214
What would you say has been the greatest area of development in the way a zoos have interpreted their collections to visitors?… Read More
What would you say has been the greatest area of development in the way a zoos have interpreted their collections to visitors?… Read More
And, and you’re, and you’re being incredibly hypocritical of going, oh no, and this is comes down to keepers as well. Oh no, we can’t do that. We can’t, we can’t euthanize Robert the Arabian ORs. But we’re quite, quite happy to have that, that no name cow come in. Read More
I admire the transparency of it. Could it happen in the uk? Don’t, no. Could it happen in in the us No, it would be a brave zoo that that did that, but it’d be one that would have my respect. Read More
Oh well we don’t want to have a surplus. I said, yeah, but that surplus is ideal material for feeding your big cats. You’ll actually cut your meat budget. And what carnivores respond in a very different way to game to wild food than they do to domestic livestock food. Read More
I speak to zoo people about, well why, why are you controlling breeding in your, your deer and antelope?… Read More
And this is something that certainly in the west, we, for the many people that that disconnect now, you know, where does milk come from?… Read More
It comes from a, a carton or a bottle. It doesn’t come from a cow anymore in many people’s minds eyes. So the fact that that animals eat other animals is something, again, is another discussion point that zoos have failed to explain to the, to the general public. And… Read More
So I think there’s that, I think there’s, again, there’s the, if it, if the enclosure looks natural, then it must be good for the animal when in actual fact, going back to something I’ve said previously, it’s basically a glorified stage set and not necessarily good for the animal. Read More
It’s not an issue. I actually recently my wife and I made the decision to euthanize our dog. Obviously the body did not end up being used as food for a zoo animal. But I think a lot of it comes down to making that, being able to make that… Read More
And so, you know, the, the program gets augmented from, from Europe where we have been less inclined to do that. But, you know, I see issues with, I’ve been helping a couple of zoos with, with breeding and, and introduction of lions for breeding. And I’m thinking having to… Read More
It was dead off a bungee cord for the servs. And, and the visitors were about 10 deep at the windows watching this rabbit getting torn into pieces by the cerebrals when they used to, when they once a week feeding in the reptile house here at London Zoo, I… Read More
What do you think are the major differences between zoos in North America and those in Europe?… Read More
How we feed our animals for the kickoff and specifically carnivores. I look at North American carnivore diets and it just makes me want to cry. I have seen an adult tiger virtually inhale, its minced meat diet. Whereas, you know, we, and you know, we’ve always fed them actual… Read More
And, and the rhino will continue to defecate on that location. I said, you know, you’ve got these rhinos you’ve soft releasing them from, from Bomas. Yes. And he went, yeah. I said, right, well then, you know, collect up all the shit and then redistribute it out. So when… Read More
You open up the books, you let them go job done others soft releases, training, training them to avoid predators. You know, the, I was involved to a degree with the Vancouver Island Marmite reintroduction breeding for reintroduction project when I was working in, in British Columbia. And, and the… Read More
I think those are the ones where, you know, we, we don’t have enough information, but even reintroducing small stuff, you know, can we do it?… Read More
Is it easy to do some species?… Read More
How, how do we approach that?… Read More
What’s, you know, big dangerous animal like that. Read More
I think the Russians have been doing some really interesting stuff with tigers that I don’t think has received the, the focus that it should, you know, reintroducing elephants or big carnivores or big primates, you know, the, the, the, the really complex ones. The ones that are more likely… Read More