Yeah. To heighten their zeal, their awareness about the natural world. You know, I noticed one thing, it was reminded that, ’cause I just saw something in our newsletter, Cleveland has a 50 teenagers in vol as volunteers during the summer you have a teenage volunteer program. And, and maybe… Read More
Families love the zoos. They love coming to the zoos, whether it’s instigated by the mother or the father, because it’s a nice place. It’s outdoors. You can have some food, you can learn something. So I think families really appreciate the zoos if we don’t do as well with… Read More
I don’t know what aspects would be, do you have any examples?… Read More
For instance, as I said, I think there’s certain things, by the way this, I’ll go back to the story about his news, his new, his, he named his animals weather and sports. So he could say we have news, weather and sports. That’s what it was. Yeah. But Another… Read More
How does, do you think Zeus can improve their connection with kids and teenagers?… Read More
No, you just need to get your name out and people, people need to respect that and, and respect the zoo. And I understand the zoo. Read More
So would you say there are some really important aspects of marketing that you really need to consider Important aspects?… Read More
But anyway, it was something like that. He said, yeah, he was news and sports. So he had two news. Yeah, he, but he had came up with some breakfast with Tiffany where he had a gorilla and Tiffany and he brought in a mail and so he wanted him… Read More
And when and when we have animal birthday parties or we have animals choosing who’s gonna win the Super Bowl, you know, I think it kind of takes away from the seriousness of the zoo. I’m not saying I never did it or we didn’t do that kind of thing,… Read More
Well, a lot of zoo directors at Nephi, they all understand marketing. Yeah, no, you have to get people to come to the zoo. I think marketing and zoos, first of all that Sue Allen was the greatest marketing person. And I was fortunate that we were able to work… Read More
You know, how do animals stay alive in Africa?… Read More
They’re stressed. So I’m not sure if we just measure stress. Again, I’m not a scientist. Maybe there’s different kinds of stress or something. But if an animal is stressed a little bit, I’m not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing because that’s the way animals survive by being stressed. Read More
Any advice for that Neophyte Zoo director about the importance of it marketing a zoo?… Read More
So where I think we always did that. Now it’s really documented and it’s scientific in a sense that because it is documented and, and, and everybody takes place. And I think the keepers at first just didn’t like it ’cause it was so much work. But now I think… Read More
And what I worry a little bit about it, and I’m not a scientist, but we do all the cortisone studies to show if they’ve stressed, is stress a bad thing?… Read More
And as I said, sometimes most zoos now and credited zoos have their own person that keeps track of that. So they make sure the keepers are looking at their animals regularly and filling out the forms. And sometimes quarterly, at least yearly it’s required. And there’s a whole system… Read More
They knew I was walking around. So I, I think that was helpful that, you know, and it was part of that management by walking around, just going and thanking them. And they all knew I was coming and, and they kind of appreciated, I think. And it, I, it… Read More
Oh, I think they are so much more now than ever before. Every, any, any zoo. Now, even a small zoo, Akron has their own animal welfare curator. And all that person does is goes through the, you know, the accreditation has a real process of animal welfare. Now you’re… Read More
Do you feel zoos and aquas need to be more involved with animal welfare?… Read More
So I came back ’cause my, what I was worried about is would the maintenance staff not finish one project and then start another?… Read More