Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 800
You gotta blame somebody. You can’t blame the gorilla. And we have to blame ourselves for not educating enough. So it’s vitally important. Read More
You gotta blame somebody. You can’t blame the gorilla. And we have to blame ourselves for not educating enough. So it’s vitally important. Read More
You know, why was that exhibit built like that?… Read More
Why is it that you don’t have water in gorilla exhibits?… Read More
Why did they do that?… Read More
You have mentioned it says, many newer, younger, aquarium professionals might be called computer curators, with little knowledge of the precepts of Heger, or Crandall, or Conway, or knowledge, or resources of books like the “International Zoo Yearbook”, how important for the future of zoos is it to keep this… Read More
How do they say that?… Read More
If you don’t know your past, you will not be able to manage your future. You’ve gotta know, you gotta know these basics. And yes, you can say, oh, well, those were old dilapidated exhibit designs. But the fundamentals are what you’ve gotta learn. Read More
He goes, push off on the glass?… Read More
That was the ultimate test in all of that. So, I mean there’s some things that you just have no idea and then you put an engineer on it and while you feel a little bit better, even the engineer goes, I can’t guarantee this, you know, but the glass… Read More
So the 6,000-pound hippo’s gonna push off on the glass like a swimmer does. Yeah. I don’t know how to design that. So we had to get an engineer in to help ’em figure out what the push rate’s gonna be underwater. And that certainly took the project back a… Read More
But the best one was the glass guy who said, well, so is this hippo gonna touch the glass?… Read More
Well, a lot of filtration people wouldn’t even touch it. But we did our best and they had to add filtration down the road because we didn’t hit the mark. Read More
We said absolutely he’s gonna touch the glass, probably gonna push off on the glass. Read More
Is that how it worked out?… Read More
You know, just to see. So I would say, you know, those are probably some of my prouder ones and I mean, there’s stuff that I started in San Diego that I was just there in the initial period. It’s already built, and gone now, and somebody else took over. Read More
But if there’s an issue anywhere in that process, it goes back up the food chain to Jim and myself. And then we have the referee shirt on and blow the whistle. Oh, I know there’s another one, the hippo exhibit at the zoo. The underwater viewing of the hippo… Read More
Wow. Well, that’s a very good question. I’m trying to think. We did some, it wasn’t actually a ground-up construction, but we’ve done several renovations of elephant exhibit at ZooTampa. We did a shoebill stork habitat that was not totally ground-up but mostly ground-up. Considering the space we had to… Read More
I always like to go back a year or two after something is built and see how, you know, is that what we envisioned?… Read More
But proud of the end results of that. Read More
What would you say is the role of conservation breeding zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More