Millions and millions of dollars. But there’s condors all over California. I saw the first California condor I’ve seen was just a couple years ago in Utah at, at the National Park Zion. I said I saw my first California condor, so they’re everywhere. The black-footed fart almost gone, came… Read More
And in, in New Zealand a lot of animals have been reintroduce reptiles and, and things have been re obviously they don’t have mammals but birds and have been re-introduced and reil. So I think zoos have been very successful in doing that. You know, obviously some we haven’t done. Read More
And the female was from the San Diego Wild Animal Park. And they put ’em together and, and and what, I can’t remember the whole story, but I guess they had a youngster and since the male was from Kenya and the female was from United States, they named the… Read More
I mean, so let’s say there’s a hundred thousand species, you know, so the numbers that we can work with is probably, well less than a thousand, maybe just a few hundred. Read More
But if you look at the, what we’ve done with a Arabian ORs, with hor ORs with California, California condor is this the most successful story around costs?… Read More
I mean Disney had a lot of space and almost what, what would you say the last 20 years, I’m guessing the zoos that wanted to keep elephants, including Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, have all expanded their elephant facilities. So I, I think it just wasn’t needed that we thought it… Read More
I’m not exactly sure Mark what you mean by that?… Read More
I mean we have a breeding program for elephants. Fortunately there’s, there’s a few zoos that are doing well, Sedwick County and those that brought in in Omaha that brought in the new ones. So there is, I’m more familiar with African elephants, but there is some of that. They,… Read More
Why didn’t zoos ever implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
We’re not gonna keep the world that we knew a hundred years ago or maybe the world we knew 20 years ago, but let’s hope we can keep enough of it so that we can keep all the animals we have. We have enough space for the animals, but they’re… Read More
Yeah, no, i, I word it a different little different we’re we have to manage all animals. We have no choice. We screwed it up so bad that it doesn’t matter if it’s a Serengeti or Yellowstone or, or a small zoo in the United States. All animals have to… Read More
I can’t really, you know, they see, we track where elephants are when they, those elephants leave and destroy somebody’s crop. That’s a big problem. And all the lions in Africa, there’s a lot of people working on different ways to manage those. The lion group in, in Tanzania is… Read More
Or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into managed wild zoos?… Read More
It’s such an intelligent animal to go in a circle all day. And so I don’t, we used to do those, but we don’t do those anymore. Read More
Do you feel there is still a wild out there?… Read More
But it’s so rare if you consider the millions of animals that are kept worldwide. Again, I think it’s, it’s a misconception because of, of our new media, Facebook, everybody knows there’s an animal that, that if a poisonous snake attacks a keeper in Thailand, we know the next day… Read More
Now, when we opened Australia, we had a camel ride. It was actually a camel sit ’cause the circle was pretty small and those, those camels were this there during season and then went back to the guy’s place in Missouri. I thought they were fine. They’re primarily drama dairy… Read More
People liked it, they’d pay for it and just for a quick ride ’cause it was unique and got pictures and photographs and stuff and pony rides mostly. You have to walk with the person now. I mean, you just can’t put a kid on a pony and let it… Read More
We’ve got a lot of studies that show that, you know, they move around as much as they would in the wild if they had the choices. So I think animals are well, well cared for. But I, I do like, I do not like the animal extremists that, that… Read More
I think most, most animals in modern a ZA zoos and in the case of good European zoos are well taken care of and, and, and are they happy?… Read More