Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 281
Does Brookfield Zoo have Sister zoo relationships?… Read More
Does Brookfield Zoo have Sister zoo relationships?… Read More
And so actually the strictest international quarantine that I’ve ever been involved in was with those birds because they had to be in quarantine for 60 days after the last egg hatched. And so, and everybody coming in and out of that exhibit had to strip down and shower in… Read More
So have you been involved in your career at Brookfield Zoo in international shipments?… Read More
And they were from countries that had bird diseases, poultry diseases that don’t exist in the United States. And so there, instead of human health concern, it’s a concern about the millions and millions of poultry in the United States. Read More
Yes, yes. Mostly zoo to zoo shipments And, and there were medical considerations as Yes, and, and some of the, some of the more challenging ones were based on, they were based on things completely outside that species and outside of the zoo field. And I’ll, I’ll give you two… Read More
Well, it, so this, this was over 30 years ago, so you know, there were a number of, there were a number of tests that that really aren’t available to us. There are diseases that have emerged in the meantime that, that were to consideration. But what we did was… Read More
I would say there are probably less than there have, there, there are many of them that happen on the, the national level, you know, those species survival programs or SSPs frequently make breeding recommendations that that call for moving animals from one population to another, one institution to another. Read More
Do you feel that there’s more or less or the same of those types of international exchanges where veterinarians and managers have to be concerned about things?… Read More
And specifically because you’ve had experience, can you relate some of your experiential things such as the spectacle bear to South America or other examples of that type of movement of animals and what veterinarians and managers had to consider?… Read More
So specifically when you were involved with the movement of the bear to Venezuela, what veterinary concerns did you have and how did you try and mitigate them?… Read More
Yeah, I, I think from a, from a medical standpoint, you, you really want to know the status of the population that the animal is coming from as well as the one that it’s going to. And, and that’s been a, a big change. We don’t, we don’t always quarantine… Read More
What worries you about conservation within the zoo field and, and what gives you hope?… Read More
What medical issues do managers and veterinarians need to consider when moving animals nationally or internationally?… Read More
I think the, the thing that gives me hope is, is starting to really make some headway with zoos and zoo clinicians starting to, are continuing, continuing to develop partnerships for conservation locally and globally and, and trying to look at medicine a little bit more broadly and, and trying… Read More
But, but there, you know, there are more, these exceptions rather than having it become, you know, sort of an integral part of management for most species. You talked about pandas and conservation regarding conservation. Read More
How realistic is reproductive technology in breeding endangered species?… Read More
I think the, I I think one of the things that we’ve learned is we are not, it, it’s not likely that zoos are gonna become, for instance, like dairy cattle, pretty much no farms that are dairy farms have dairy bulls to, to breed with the, the dairy cows… Read More
Speaking of, of design elements and so forth, what do you think has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their, their collection to their visitors?… Read More
I, I think things have, things have really advanced and, and I think one of the, of the keys in interpretation is, is not just, you know, kind of going over a natural history of these animals and quoting from walker’s, mammals of the world on, on habitat or the… Read More
We we’re trying to drive conservation, but you start that by having people make that connection with the animal and having people develop a, a caring attitude towards that, that animal, that species animals in the wild. And then having that drive conservation actions on, on the part of our… Read More