It had a wrapper on it and I forget all the things it said, but it said, you are appreciated it. Happy birthday, you’re appreciated. And, and everybody’s birthday, I would try to find that person. Now it might be a day late or a week late or whatever, but… 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
And as I was doing it, I’d talked to keepers as I walked around or even guessed as I walked around. Read More
And I, on that checklist I would, could I see the animal or not?… Read More
No, but I did management by walking around and I thought it was very effective and people knew it. So what I did, I did two things every month. I took a checklist like yours, I had 192 exhibits from a leaf cutter and exhibit to an elephant exhibit. Read More
And is that something you did?… Read More
I did not do traditional rounds. I think it’s important for zoos to be out in the zoo. And I, I’m sure I was out in the zoo every day, but I didn’t get there in the morning and traditionally do a round and walk around. First of all it… Read More
I know there probably are because I think cities sometimes have sister zoo relationships with probably not so much with China anymore, but with, with places. And, and through that you might part be part of a delegation that would go to the, the city because there’s a sister zoo… Read More
When I got to Cleveland, we had a sister zoo relationship in Wuhan China. It was a disaster in a sense that it was really just a way to trade animals. We gave them a raccoon, they gave us red pandas, you know, I mean it was kind of silly. Read More
How important do you feel it is for a zoo director to make rounds of the zoo?… Read More
So, you know, and that’s sort of a wow experience when you can you see ’em. And you know, the other thing that’s more wow than when you and I started in zoos is the mesh that we have now, it somewhat disappears. It’s not chain link and it’s not… Read More
Why don’t zoos seem to have more sister zoo relationships?… Read More
And if they’re back away, your camera, you can phase out the mesh too. So, so there’s lots of ways to make make a wow exhibits. It starts with exhibitry when you can, when you can interpret ’em close, it’s, it’s even better. Read More
And and that’s a wow, isn’t it?… Read More
And and it’s with any animal. So you one animal’s be close, but you don’t wanna be far. So when they’re far, at least they’re in a nice area, hopefully they’re doing things. A lot of times animals aren’t doing anything. And pe I think people understand that I, you… Read More
I say, well your cat at home sleeps all day, doesn’t it?… Read More
Hire a good architect, I guess, I don’t know, pretty creative when we could, our elephant exhibit is a good example. Again, the architects sort of came out. We have two elephant Cleveland has two elephant exhibits and in in between them is, we call it the afro, an elephant… Read More
So in a sense, an elephant, even if it’s behind a cable structure, 10 feet from you is a wow. And seeing the elephants in the barn is a wow because you can really see how big they are. You know, the old story we all tell about the little… Read More
How did you try and achieve a wow impact in exhibit design?… Read More
In fact, there was, I just read an article today about a, a group that’s coming together to get more keepers involved in field conservation by not just this group but by listing all the opportunities keepers could have. Because there’s a lot of agencies that’ll take volunteers to help… Read More