Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 286
That’s not animal stuff, but that’s important. Read More
That’s not animal stuff, but that’s important. Read More
But did you also teach ’em how to be, how to begin to separate themselves and be a people manager to keep harmony and keep production going on in that group that they’re over?… Read More
Do they know how to do a budget?… Read More
Let’s make ’em a curator. Well, okay, but did you train ’em in personnel management?… Read More
I look at, what’s the word curate mean?… Read More
And that means you have to be a working person out there that has to have knowledge. I’m not saying you have to be an expert at every species. That’s why you hire good, good people, good animal care specialists, good managers. But you need to understand what every specimen… Read More
Well, I say I think they need the same thing. And I think that’s been lost in many cases. We talked about the, the computer curator. I go back and I’m a purist. Read More
Well, sometimes, But what skillset would you say that a person as a director of animal management needs today’s compared to when you started?… Read More
I, I want to try and I’d love to see stuff created that would invest them more. So they go, this is really a community asset that we need to keep, that we need to support. You. Were in charge of animal management. Read More
They’re gonna start plucking, they’re gonna have other issues. So I don’t think that interaction hurts, but boy, what it did to the public was just incredible. And they, they just really got into it. And so I hope AI can, in the future, can allow us to do more… Read More
I, I hope that ai, if we ever figure out what that is and, and whether it’s controlled or not, I hope AI and our future exhibit capability allows a greater interaction somehow that doesn’t necessarily impact the individual specimen, but allows, you know, we talk about immersion exhibits, right?… Read More
You know, and we had great interpretive, but now with ai, I think we could do so much more if we really invest in it to get that interaction, to get people more invested in what we do and how we do it, so they can feel that maybe they’re… Read More
Where people can come in and get into the environment, so to speak, that the animal’s in and make ’em feel more of, of that part, which is why Tropic World supposedly was, was built. AI can do so much more of that now that would allow that interaction to… Read More
What technologies do you think will be transformative for guest experiences?… Read More
That’s the kind of thing you need. And I, I see that changing a lot now, only because I keep, I keep saying it. You have a new generation of development. People that didn’t grow up developing relationships, they grew up learning how to go out and do grant writing… Read More
They would provide the funding to support to get our dolphin lift, which is almost half a million dollars to build a dolphin lift. Because we created a relationship and they knew if something was happening with the species, they were interested. We are gonna get a hold of ’em. Read More
Come in now they come in. And guess what?… Read More
What you can give is help support it. Funding wise, they don’t wanna do that. It’s, and they don’t wanna give their time. It’s inconvenient. So that scares me about where we’re going in the future as far as philanthropic giving and support of conservation down the road. It was… Read More
It’s no, I want you long term. And you know, we have donors that, I won’t say they don’t do it now, but it’s causing some problems. We had donors that supported a dolphin program. Well, you know what, as soon as we knew a dolphin was gonna give birth,… Read More
But if it’s conserving something in the field or it’s a program that requires managers and scientists, how can you give your time?… Read More