But if you remember one of my, some of my favorite labels, and you’ll know this is the Bronx Sues bird house. Conway did those labels years ago and they were very humorous at a stork with a, with a baby and then, you know, cartoon drawings. And I thought… Read More
You have to have pictures and a few facts. Did you have ideas about it at Cleveland that you were trying to Well I, I think our education department did it all. Again, I think with the idea of asking a question or can you see this or something was… Read More
Is this animal laying down or does this animals whatever?… Read More
And I think that’s, do you see this?… Read More
Here’s an interesting, what does one need to think about in designing signage for animal exhibits?… Read More
It seems like there’s no magic bullet. No, there is no magic bullet. I think there’s some good strategies. First of all, I, you gotta have the name and the scientific name. I know that nobody looks at it, but you gotta at least have a label that gives the… Read More
And then I think about what Cleveland’s done that I really like is they’re very simple labels, but they ask a question for instance, can you see something about this animal that you could observe?… Read More
You see ’em eat and you see the keepers work with them and stuff. So it’s, it’s, it’s okay. Read More
So we tried to have enough stuff in the winter, but it’s not the same experience we used to have. And I don’t think they do it anymore. We used to have a discount at rate too, but I don’t think they do that anymore. So those are some of… Read More
The first thing I ask is how do you operate a zoo in the winter?… Read More
And so that changed. We didn’t go to 200,000 guests in January, but it went from 30 to 60,000 or something, you know. And so that, that’s kind of that. And then you, then you have to have some indoor spaces. So for instance, our giraffe and our rhino barn,… Read More
You don’t get the visitation in the winter, but it’s wonderful experience. I mean I see people all the time in the winter when I’m there that say I love coming to the zoo in the winter. They don’t have the crowds. And we had enough, we had enough winter… Read More
Oh my god, yes. And I knew nothing about it when I moved from Sacramento to Cleveland. Read More
Are there different considerations in exhibit design for a winter in a summer zoo?… Read More
So it brought the zoo sort of out to people in a classroom, but they could see the zoo, the zoo on the tv. Read More
What is distance learning in how you approach education?… Read More
Our education setup, we had a program that we could, you know, get on TVs with, with, I can’t remember some other country, I think it was in Africa actually South Africa, we, I don’t know how we did it time-wise, but we could bring a class into our distance… Read More
Well, you need to build for both or all three. For instance, as, as I was talking to you earlier, maybe at lunch, the old bear grottos had nowhere and the keepers had to crawl through the animal doors. That’s just not, not sustainable. So that’s the keeper end. So… Read More
So, so those are the kind of things you think about with animals. With the elephants, we wanted to have for instance elevated feeders that gives the elephants a chance with their trunks and to lift up and get on their back feet and that kind of thing. And places. Read More
It’s not all concrete and bars, which we don’t do anymore. So I think for all three you, you definitely have to build for all three the best you can. Read More