We use that money to bring an af, a young African scientist curator over the United States for training. They come to ours. They’re usually going to some specialty conferences in the United States. So that’s fun. And I get to meet ’em every year and shake hands. We have… Read More
Take my wife along and stuff. So it’s, it is fun. So I’m, I think I’m pretty well involved. It’s a passion of mine. It’s still what I like to do. It’s a hobby. Still go to zoos, try to get different new zoos all the time. So I’m still… Read More
One, it’s easy, it’s the most well financed zoo in the country. I mean, they do very well. They have their own property tax revenue. They, they, when, when I came here in 89, pat Simmons and would always joke and I agreed it was a zoo with a duck… Read More
I don’t know why they still let me, I guess. ’cause I, I volunteer and do it. And last year they gave me a plaque. It’s not in the zoo anyway, a ZA gave me a plaque. I’m one of three people that have done over 50 accreditation inspections. So… Read More
To what extent do you continue to be active?… Read More
What I didn’t know, I mean, I could do a two hour lecture on orangutans, but I didn’t know, I said I gave candy bars to the workers. So I knew the worker. I didn’t know the animal names. So in my phone right here, I have all the names… Read More
Well, I’m, I’m pretty active. I, as I said, I’m a, I’m an animal ambassador in Cleveland. I’ve been for six years. It’s just, I started just before COVID and I didn’t do much. So I do about a hundred hours. I walk around, people don’t know who I am. Read More
I mean, what would, what would a lesser organization as part of a ZA be?… Read More
You know, we have these codes, we have this very extensive accreditation program and you gotta go through that. And we have a very extensive ethic code. So if, if anybody that wants to abide by those three can be a member, and it’s a little, you know, so I… Read More
So there’s sort of a, a a of a minor league, you know, so could we have two organizations?… Read More
No, that, you know, relate to each other. I don’t think that would be, be, work out that way, but I, I wish ZAA didn’t have to exist, but it’s better than nothing. And again, I think those people don’t wanna be a member. Lot of them don’t want to… Read More
So those are the two that are exempt from having to do a permit. So I wish we didn’t have it, but I understand why we haven’t, I don’t, I don’t think it would be easy to combine the two. Read More
ZAA Yeah, as a, as a minor league. So we have, they have 80 members, we have 250 or 240 members. Read More
I see the ZAA, is that it?… Read More
Some, some zoo director doesn’t wanna send it there. We usually work out way we, we usually make a compromise. So that, so that keeps people out. Read More
Is there room for both?… Read More
I wish there wasn’t. I wish there was just one organization, but it can’t be for a couple of reasons because a z there’s two things that a ZA does that keeps people from joining or becoming a member. One, we have a very strong ethics code and you have… Read More
Well, I, we’ve, we’ve worked, we’ve said this for years and we’ve not been very successful. This is one where we could work with some animal welfare institutions like HSUS. I think we need to be really good about trying to be against, I’ll just call ’em because it’s a… Read More
There are two professional zoo associations, a ZA and z, a zoological association market. Read More
But I think zoos can be in United States, but also in, in in waza organizations. I think they can be more aggressive about getting zoos, substandard zoos closed. Now what do you do with the animals becomes another issue. You can’t just close the zoo and move the animals… Read More