Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 259
And, and when you talk about specialists, and you mentioned it, how important is it to include the veterinarian when exhibit design is taking place?… Read More
And, and when you talk about specialists, and you mentioned it, how important is it to include the veterinarian when exhibit design is taking place?… Read More
Well, as, as I mentioned before, one of the big advances in zoo medicine is really integrating veterinarians in zoo management. And a, the things that, you know, in terms of things that might cause problems to an animal, whether they’re physical, developmental, nutritional, behavioral, those things that might eventually… Read More
It much more, and this is, this is true on the human side and the veterinary side. When I was a practicing small animal veterinarian, I did orthopedic surgery, I did abdominal surgery, did minor ophthalmic procedures that almost no veterinarians in private practice would do today. Those are all,… Read More
I, I think there were, there were two different things. One was the mom’s behavior and how elephants give birth. And, you know, mother elephants don’t have hands, they can’t pick them up and put them upright, you know, so they’re pushing the kid around with their feet and they… Read More
How, how important is it for a veterinarian, a zoo veterinarian to be able to perform surgery?… Read More
It’s not necessarily a skill that they’re all expert at, or do you rely on experts?… Read More
And it was because it had something like a plant on in its ear that could have been immobilize the animal, take 10 minutes, look, pull something out when you first saw an animal irritating it, perhaps put it on a course of antibiotics that, that could have saved its… Read More
What would you say were the key medical considerations that you had to be concerned with and how key were these preparations, both from a medical standpoint and a management standpoint?… Read More
So you mitigate a risk of anesthesia by doing one instead of two or three and, and you have somebody there that’s more likely to be able to, to have a good impact on the problem at hand. And speaking of preparation, you’ve been involved with the birth of an… Read More
Can you explain the phrase, when you say balancing risk versus reward and how that played out in one particular case of the sedation of a large gor at Lincoln Park Zoo, that phrase risk versus reward?… Read More
Well, I, I think so. So the concern is you want to, you want to make sure that the, the benefit that you are going to get from a particular procedure is worth the risk of anesthesia. And, and as I, as I mentioned before, the risk of anesthesia is… Read More
That’s something where you have the opportunity to kind of put your heads together and not necessarily vote on it, but, but to, to have input from a number of different individuals. But it’s very unlikely that there’s one single right way to approach a particular medical problem. In your… Read More
I, I, I, I heard, and this was, this was not in the context of veterinary medicine, but I’ve heard management trainers say, if, if I have 10 people that work for me and they all have all the same opinions as me, then I got 10 people that I… Read More
You know, when you’re making the decision, do we, you know, do we put an animal under the knife to do a 10 hour brain surgery?… Read More
But as the chief veterinarian, sometimes you have to make a decision. It, it, it’s, it’s very infrequent that there’s a right way and a wrong way there. There’s lots of, you know, particularly in medicine, there’s, you know, there are lots of different approaches for some very high profile… Read More
And in your role as a senior veterinarian, how did you deal with different opinions by different veterinarians for cases?… Read More
I, in, in some places they’ve been spectacularly successful. California condors, you know, has has been one of those and, but it’s not, you know, it’s never gonna be the primary way that we save the wild because you have to, you always have to attack the issue that caused… Read More
Do you think zoos and aquariums have been successful in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
So I get the, I don’t do short answers very well, but the short answer is we are not carving up a piece and making a zoo out of it, but trying to find some of the places where we have, you know, where human populations, human settlements have impacted… Read More
Why do you think zoos did not implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More