Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 622
And does euthanizing of endangered species ’cause of surplus genetic issues still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
And does euthanizing of endangered species ’cause of surplus genetic issues still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
How should zoos think about dealing with surplus animals?… Read More
So Two parts. Read More
You gotta understand as, as when people ask Bill Conway how many animals die in a zoo?… Read More
He said, a hundred percent, you know, he is, you gotta understand you’re gonna have some sad times. Never bothered me too much. I’m not saying I’m not, didn’t feel bad when an animal passed away. But I, the ones that, the ones that bothered me the most were elephants… Read More
I think ’cause it’s a great profession. You gotta be passionate about it, you know, you gotta understand it know, I think it’s a great profession and there it’s a lot of fun. I mean I, you know, I travel the world as a zoo director for god’s sake. So,… Read More
Would you recommend the zoo, aquarium field to a young person with a sincere interest in wildlife and conservation today? Why?… Read More
But I just, I just enjoyed it. But I don’t know what’s not to enjoy about it. Again, you, we’ve talked a little bit about politics and depends how the zoo is organized and sometimes that can cause a problem. Read More
Benedict was a drama teacher and I had just been elected senior class president. I was giving some speech and she took me aside, I gotta teach you to public speak. He said, I gotta teach you to project. Now you can see I’m yelling too much. So I have… Read More
I supported my best friend Mike and the other guy got elected. So I wasn’t gonna get appointed to the Hees saw that I got appointed to a position so I could have something to do for that semester. So I’ve, I’ve learned things from, a lot of people have… Read More
Everybody I worked for gave me something. As I said, Warren Thomas, one of the things he taught me is no matter how small the, the pro, how small the issue is, do it. If I say do it. So when I was that assistant curator, you know, I, Rick… Read More
You’ve had mentors, what lessons did you take away from ’em?… Read More
And when I went to San San Francisco, Margaret Burs was my boss, Peggy Burs, and she was the head of the Zeus Society. She got us taking a class called Management by Objectives. And my whole life I’ve worked that out, you know, where you set up plans and… Read More
Right. So I think that was important advice and I, I knew that it would, again, no matter how passionate I would feel about an idea, unless I could sell it to other people, it didn’t really make any sense. But I love the mile angel quote about do the… Read More
We don’t have to do that. It took a long time to change people’s mind, but now that we do it, everybody understands that, that elephants are much better off. They, they, they have choice and they, they volunteer to do things. They’re smart animals, they do it. So I… Read More
There’s a lot of quotes. I like, I think, I think it was Warren Thomas that told me, and maybe he quoted somebody else, it’s not enough to be right and what it, what it meant. And that, and remember I grew up in the fifties and the sixties and… Read More
I think elephants can do very well in zoos. They’re smart animals. They adjust very well to, to human care, I believe. Read More
What was, if there was, what was the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
In your professional opinion, what is your view regarding zoos, maintaining elephants and how it should be done correctly?… Read More
And I think we have the capacity now to keep both Asian and and African elephants. And we probably are gonna have to import some that may not even be able to happen anymore. But I, we probably will need some, some new blood in our population or at least,… Read More