He is not a, not causing any problem. And one of the keepers, one of our draft keeper in Cleveland went over there and she was really responsible for trying to keep the giraffe calm in the trucks because she’s a keeper so she knows giraffes and barns and stuff. Read More
What are you doing for field conservation?… Read More
I think we owe it to the animals that we keep. I don’t think we keep animals and zoos just for entertainment. I think we keep it for, for to have a nice time if that’s entertainment. But we also keep animals, our zoo for education and conservation. So I… Read More
But for the most part we spend a lot more money now and it’s for the last at least 10 years, it’s always been an important part of accreditation. Read More
So yeah, Getting in conservation regarding cons, what worries you, but what gives you hope?… Read More
Field conservation general. Let’s go general field conservation. Okay. I, I think the, the, the speed in which, no, not most so speed, but the amount of money we spend now, I think a ZA spends something like, what was it, it was over, I think it was close to… Read More
And now what are you talking about?… Read More
Well, I think the exhibits are better. Again, not everybody’s like me, but I like a story. You gotta tell a story about an animal and you do that through good exhibitory graphics is only a minor help, but you could have other types of hands-on type learning to, to… Read More
Like it’s a piece of nature. Realizing we don’t fool anybody with naturalistic exhibits. But I think it makes us feel better. I also think it has the animals feel better than in a concrete box. You remember from Lincoln Park to bathroom style cages we had that didn’t make… Read More
I, I don’t think so. I think you gotta have a nice looking thing. It it’s large enough and diverse enough for, for, for the animals. And we’ve come up with some interesting things. I know in the new bear exhibit in Cleveland, they have poles that the animals can… Read More
I suppose so. I think it has to do with who they are. You know, I think it came from interest. I think the choice of the species, as I understand it probably came from the interest of the curators and at the, at the beginning directors, but mostly curators. Read More
What, what would you say is the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collections to visitors?… Read More
Is maybe the questions we also need to be asked at the same time. Now we’re talking about different animal species. In your opinion, does the selection that the American, the association, a CA association of Zeus and Aquariums decided for their species of surviv program, those species which they… Read More
Has that met with what you envisioned in these?… Read More
Is it, I guess my question is, is it the, the, is it reality or is it really the right thing to do?… Read More
We, I, my wife and I went to my 50th or whatever college reunion and we went to the, we had a speaker from, from from the liberal arts side and he says, you know, the scientists will say we can clone a human being, but the liberal arts people… Read More
So I think that’s the question, you know, science can do anything, but do we really wanna do that?… Read More
Oh and Some of these extinct, You know, I really don’t know as much about it. The qa, they’ve talked about bringing it back and I suppose with technology it’s could happen. The gene technology. Yeah, it’s a little too out there for me. And I don’t know if it’s… Read More
On that same vein, just do you have an opinion on these new quote unquote breakthroughs of bringing back the mammoth?… Read More
So I think it’s very successful, but it’s not gonna save the a hundred thousand animals that we have. Maybe we’ll do a thousand animals at the most. Read More