Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 341
What’s your feelings about enrichment programs and what they do or don’t do or how they might be shaped?… 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
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 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
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 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
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
So they, we talked for about 15 minutes and she said, can I come back to my chamber?… 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
And, and judge batch leather, who became a great friend of the zoo, she listened for about 15 minutes. By the way, Les Fisher and Bob Wagner came to town and we had it all planned what we were gonna say. Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these type of groups?… Read More
And so for three years at least, we didn’t have a single gorilla, you know, it was, he, there was two of ’em. I think people felt better about that. And then the friends of SSP said, oh, here’s a ve old gorilla that’s never important for the gene pool. Read More
I sure can. And I, I, let me start with, and if I get off track a little bit, get me get back to the general. So I had two, Cleveland was not a hotbed of animal rights groups, you know, animal rights group. We really liked Chicago and New… Read More