I, I think one of the biggest changes is, well, the, probably the biggest change is a result of the fact that we’ve got more access to animals back not long before I started there, there weren’t very good anesthetics if, if all you had was ether and barbiturates, you… Read More
What is the, how important is that relationship between the zoo pathologist or the pathologist and the veterinarian?… Read More
And before I, while I was still at Lincoln Park Zoo, I actually got together with my predecessor here at Brookfield and came up with the idea of collaborating with the University of Illinois for a formal zoo pathology program. And, and so we started a collaboration among Brookfield Zoo,… Read More
I started my training, my formal zoo training. I started at St. Louis. I started working at the St. Louis Zoo in 1970, working in the refreshment stands, trying to get work in the, in the children’s zoo, and then moved into the children’s zoo. And the, the very first… Read More
And then immediately he’s like, oh my god, that’s not something that he can survive. I mean, that, that’s not something that, you know, is within our scope to treat. And then as we thought about it a little more, we consulted with some neurosurgeons over there and, and they… Read More
And we, on the morning that we brought him over to the animal section of the medical school for the surgery, we got film of that, we edited that film down over, over the morning while the surgery was ongoing. And by the time the surgeon stepped away from the… Read More
Well now when you talk about making sure animals are well taken care of, what do you feel is the value of a medical group to a zoo veterinarian?… Read More
And can you give us some examples of this and how it helped?… Read More
Well, a, a medical group, when I was at Lincoln Park, we had a group of medical consultants and, and they met on a, on a regular basis. And that, that con the concept of having outside consultants, you know, get together sort of as a, as a committee or… Read More
And the animal rights groups are like, wow, this is, you know, we can go out there and say this animal is gonna die in this zoo and they’re probably right because the animal’s gonna give, live a nice long life and pass away as we all will at, at… Read More
It it led folks to discover that there was a real weak spot that animal rights advocates could use to go after zoos. And, and that was with these, so like, like a lot of folks in our country, we don’t talk about death a lot and zoos didn’t talk… Read More
So it, it really is gonna be up to their particular resources. But I think you can do, you can do a good job representing both endangered species, some international as well as regional species. This is not an experience that, that I was involved in directly. It didn’t involve… Read More
What, what kind of space do they have available?… Read More
I think there’s so many different ways to develop an institutional collection plan. Read More
You know, what are the interests of the, of their membership or their visitors?… Read More
Well, I, I think I’ve seen that for a small to medium sized zoo. I, I’ve seen it done two ways. One is they can be a participant or partner with another institution on a big global program that they’re doing on ape rescues in Africa, or the work that… Read More
Considering these financial resources available to these smaller, medium sized zoos, do you think the focus, they should have a focus on their collection for all animals or endangered species or western zoos with western animals?… Read More
So as you’ve seen some of these things unfold, what skill, what kind, what can a small or medium sized municipal zoo do today to be involved in wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally?… Read More
What skillset would you say a zoo veterinarian needs today as compared to when you started?… Read More
I, I think the, the big difference I, from when I started, the year I graduated from vet school, there was one textbook on zoo animal medicine and it was in German. And today there are volumes and volumes of literature on very particular topics in various animals. So today,… Read More