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And so I think they’ve influenced zoos the most and how we look at exhibitry and where we spend our dollars. Can we educate them to say that’s not necessarily always the case. You can, it’ll be hard because they’ve been, they’ve evolved into that aspect of what their expectations… Read More

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So are you taking good care of your animals?… Read More

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Well, we, we did, we touched on it, visitor attitudes. They’ve been influenced by outside influencers. So they come in with certain expectations. They wanna see big naturalistic exhibits. They wanna say that we’re really concerned about welfare. Read More

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And it’s, you know, it can be done. Read More

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What changes would you say you’ve seen during your years in, in the profession regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More

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Well, you might be able to do that. And, and you know, Puerto Rican, crested toad, look how many toads have been spin back to Puerto Rico. So it doesn’t have to be a mega vertebrate or a huge species. It could be a small one and ma small or… Read More

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But I think any zoo at any level now, you may not get involved with, you know, Sumatra Rhino or something like that. But that doesn’t mean, the good example is we just funded a grant to do conservation work for an alligator lizard that’s up in Ecuador. Tiny habitat,… Read More

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Can we start something under professional care?… Read More

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You know, there’s not a commitment there, I don’t think. But there’s a lot of small zoos that have done that. Turtleback Zoo and a few others, they got involved with us with the PANGOLIN program. They still are involved. They don’t have pangolins, but they still commit and they… Read More

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How can they be involved?… Read More

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Well, I, I actually think in, in the last few years that I was there, there were a number of small zoos, medium and small zoos that were getting more into conservation work. Some of it was international, but a lot of it was what I call backyard conservation, where… Read More

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And we don’t have, we don’t have a lot of that. So I’d go back to o training techniques. There’s different kinds of zoos. Read More

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How do you think a small or a medium-sized municipal zoo today could be involved in wildlife conservation, whether it’s local or national or international?… Read More

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Do you understand your responsibility in making sure the welfare of that animal is met pre, during and post?… Read More

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Or you know, if we’re gonna prep something to move to another zoo for genetic reasons. Read More

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Do you know how that’s gonna impact that animal?… Read More

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Do you know what’s gonna happen?… Read More

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Jim Do gen Do, we were at a, a conference and you were probably there up at Milwaukee. We came out of a talk and all three of us, all four of us looked at each other and go, man, we’ve, we’ve messed up. We, we haven’t mentored these people… Read More

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And so I would say I would love to Don Bruning and, and John Baylor and I, and, and oh gosh, who was the general curator of Bronx?… Read More

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Do they have that training? And I don’t see that a lot in, in the newer curators that are out there. Read More

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