Hmm. It’s an interesting question. I, I don’t know that I was a good zoo director, but I, you know, I, I would guess that one is my passion for saving wildlife and wild places and doing that through work, the work in the zoo. I also think I was… Read More
So in your long career, what prompted you to write a book about your life in the zoo? Profession?… Read More
They have to have good safety. You don’t really see the safety procedure. But all those things make great zoo, a great zoo that doesn’t have a really high end conservation program. I mean, field conservation program, I’m not interested in as, as a great zoo. So it’s not just… Read More
But again, resource management have great education programs. So you gotta have all those things to, for me to be a great zoo. So when I see these lists, nobody has the same list, by the way I said a lot of people have the, some of the same zoos… Read More
So I got a couple more countries. So that was kind of fun too. And it was a small cruise, I mean small by, by standards now it was like 400 or 500 people. So it was a huge, huge cruise ship. Read More
Hmm. Now that’s a very good question. I would just look at the a CA criteria. So a great zoo would have all, would be very good at all that great animal care, good veterinary department. When I rate zoos, I’m not doing it for life for a magazine or… Read More
You’ve said that there are many good zoos, but what makes a good zoo, in your opinion, a great zoo?… Read More
So, you know, I like to go to zoos. I like to see different things. So not just to get ideas from my zoo, although I do, you know, I’ve done all these accreditation inspections and I always say that I get more, particularly when it’s working, not now, but… Read More
I just, I, I knew people that had did it, so I just applied. I found out there was a company that provides lectures to a couple of cruise lines and I just applied for them. And there was one that fit my expertise went from Costa Rica to San… Read More
How did that happen?… Read More
I thought, well why not do that if it makes money?… Read More
So I put a gift shop in the wolf wilderness. I put one up in the cat and primate building and put one in Australia and they’re all gone now. I think it’s just the cost of staff. So they have a gift shop at the entrance and I think… Read More
Well certainly with Exhibitry seeing the good exhibits that tell, again, I’m a big believer in telling a story, not just having a wolf exhibit. These are wolfs. So our wolf exhibit, you go through a log cabin and we have a story about how trappers had it and turned… Read More
How has this helped to shape your philosophy in any way?… Read More
Do you feel that zoo guide books and and the zoom maps and things are just a thing of the past?… Read More
And speaking of graphics, you had indicated, you know, people have a Zoom app on their phone and stuff and theres are more Zoom apps and you kind of lamented, I thought a bit about that. Read More
Probably. Probably. I like ’em. We did one, we did one, we had one that our gift shops have, but we only did one guide book and then it was out of date as soon as we did it ’cause we didn’t have those animals or whatever. So yeah, those… Read More
I didn’t have any magic, magic things but there any, anyway, there are some stories you just don’t want to do long narratives, that’s for sure. And people now can take their phone out and put in seminar horned ORs if they really wanna know a lot of information. Read More
So do you really need a lot of graphics, you Know?… Read More
Does this animal look like there’s something that would climb a tree or something?… Read More