Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 348
And what would you include in a training program for curious?… Read More
And what would you include in a training program for curious?… Read More
And how should curators be trained today to do what’s expected of them in running a collection?… Read More
It’s, it’s not very successful. But I think it’s important. And You talked about good animal person, good business person, how they might work together, a complaint sometimes from the new directors. There are too few good curators in the community today. Read More
It was accredited at that time. I saw one of the simplest things I ever saw, I don’t know if this is as much as enrichment, but in the elephant barn, they had a chain across the, the stall, two feet off the ground. And they just trained the elephant… Read More
What’s your feelings about enrichment programs and what they do or don’t do or how they might be shaped?… Read More
What they do is provide animals, something to think about and something to do so they’re not just standing around. It could be giraffe feeders, it could be, you know, I, I love to watch our rhinos in Cleveland. And as I said to your colleague over here, I still… Read More
You build these 10, 1500 million dollar exhibits and you put serial boxes out and I, I think it’s somewhat distracting, but the, if you go do an accreditation inspection, you look in almost any exhibit and they have a chart, they chart enrichment, so they’re not doing the same… Read More
Did I answer that pretty completely or was there other things you wanted me to say?… Read More
No, I, I I think that was very good. And, and you mentioned one thing about behavior with the elephants and enrichment. Read More
And when a baby happens, they’re, they’re ecstatic. So there’s a lot of people that love zoos. So I think they greatly outnumber the, the animal welfare, animal rights people. Read More
So I don’t know if that’s gonna turn around, it won’t turn around the people that really hate zoos. But you gotta understand, even a ZA 190 million people come to our 240 zoos. That’s more than all the rational sports combined. So there are a lot of people that… Read More
And then of course give ’em a food reward. But I mean, they seem very happy. So the animal extremists you lose, you know that they have a lot of things they say that just really aren’t true. That, oh, they say, look, we should release ’em all back in… Read More
The keepers ask them politely, will you do this?… Read More
What we were doing with elephants 30 years ago wasn’t the best. What we’re doing with elephants now is beautiful. You look at the four elephants, older elephants in Cleveland, I would never say this but I’m gonna say it, they’re happy. They like each other. They move around each… Read More
And some of ’em are very vocal about it. But I, you know, and I don’t know if it’s growing or not, but the problem we have with the subject of animal welfare and animal rights is particularly animal rights. People can use soundbites like no other zoos or jails. Read More
You know, elephants should live 80, 80 years. Well, the oldest elephant in the world might have lived 80 or 70 years, but the average lifespan might be 40. So they don’t use a median. They use, you know, the records like saying we, we all should live to a… Read More
I mean, we’re most familiar with the case in San Francisco where some people came in the zoo late and taunted the animal, and the animal got out and killed somebody. So a lot of the people that are killed in zoos, you know, half of ’em are visitors that… Read More
So we had a few protestors come, you know, they didn’t want us to keep elephants in the zoo, but it was a small group and we went out and gave them water and talked to ’em. Sue Allen, my marketing person was really good with people like that. And… Read More
So she took the attorneys back to the chamber and for about a half an hour, and we just sat there and the judge came out and says, look, if it was me, I might not wanna send Timmy to New York, but under the Endangered Species Act, the zoo… Read More
I wish I had the letter that they, somebody sent me. It was quite humorous. But you know, they had signs sent to me, not Taylor, they called me all kinds of names. You know, I want a terrible person. I was for doing it. It became quite a big… Read More