Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 34
How can we turn this into a profession, which it wasn’t From 19 80, 19 84, you’re the head charter war keeper, how Howlet Zoo Park, how do you get to Howlet Zoo Park?… Read More
How can we turn this into a profession, which it wasn’t From 19 80, 19 84, you’re the head charter war keeper, how Howlet Zoo Park, how do you get to Howlet Zoo Park?… Read More
So I suppose a lot of the things that the zookeepers of today would rather take for granted didn’t exist or, or were, were in a, they existed, but maybe in isolation. London Zoo had a keeper training course, but it was only for London and Waid staff. And it… Read More
But yeah, it was how, it was a philosophy of, okay, right, how can, how can we improve this?… Read More
How do we, how do we educate keepers?… Read More
How should we be keeping our animals?… Read More
How, how do we make it better?… Read More
How, how, how do we raise the game, I think was what I was, was my philosophy. Read More
The director had made promises that he couldn’t keep. And so I was like, I was at a loose end that they were looking for a, a manager for the non drive-through area at the Bear Park or Cameron Wildlife Park. And, and so I opted for that for a… Read More
La Loman Wildlife Park no longer exists. It was originally called Cameron Bear Park. It was the Chipperfield organization who started all the safari parks. They looked at a different model. So instead of Africa, they’d do a bear park. They actually had a drive through polar bear enclosure, which… Read More
So that was my first interaction with, with Dr. Conway. But you leave the Bronx Zoo and you go to La Loman Wildlife. Read More
Why did you leave the Bronx? And where is La Loman Wildlife?… Read More
And you realize that the roofs in the Indian rhino stalls are too low, so you can’t put rhinos together. Otherwise, the male, when he mounts the female is gonna go through the ceiling and apparently you’ve only got two and a half tons pressure on the hydraulic doors on… Read More
And why have you got heated areas for the ammo tigers?… Read More
And I was like, well, I’ll tell you. Read More
And so I got, and I was only there, I’d only been there a couple of months at the time and I’m in Wild Asia and, you know, being the, the zoo freak that I am, and you know, I’m looking at all things like, well, you know, why have… Read More
Why have they done it this way? Anyway, I’m stand, I’d had way too much beer and I’m standing on the loading dock and this guy in a suit comes up and he goes, well, so what do you think of Wild Asia?… Read More
Did you ever, ever have an opportunity to interact with the director?… Read More
My first interaction with, with Bill Conway was amusing and unfortunate. They had not finished, opened Wild Asia and they had it a weird system, Astor, who had basically bankrolled the, the Wild Asia project. She’d given some money for a party, but they couldn’t have everybody there. So if… Read More
I went back to, my parents still lived on Long Island and I went back for a visit and, and of course I visited the Bronx Zoo. And again, you know, I was curious that, you know, any vacancies, I got an interview with the head of, I suppose what… Read More
Yeah. Why?… Read More