Some of ’em were, well first we went to collect sperm from elephants, because as we used to say, that was a mammoth problem. But then we started doing things like, I’d have an elephant down, and we studied must in elephants, you know, the … And we’d find one… Read More
How often were you in the field?… Read More
Did you initiate, you said you got the money, was it things that people brought to you, “Can you assist us or were you, Most of it — “I wanna do this”, and they found you the money?… Read More
It depended on financing, and defining going in the field, I was probably going into Africa at least once a year, maybe once every other year, and those years that David and I went to Africa were the golden years, we had access that is unbelievable, you couldn’t have had… Read More
Well we tried to do that with the giraffe anesthesias I explained and that didn’t work, because we had to change the way that we did it. And then the TB again doesn’t work as well in that direction because of, you know, you don’t have confinement, and you can’t… Read More
Did it work the other way also, things that were applicable in a zoo might transfer to field research or not?… Read More
I’d say some of it does. Some of it was directly for the field problems, like our study on tuberculosis in the buffalo in Kruger, we’d had some experience with tuberculosis problems in captive things, but they’re two different problems in a free-ranging versus a captive thing, so that didn’t… Read More
What was it like to incorporate the fieldwork you’ve done into clinical practice at home?… Read More
Is it, does it have applicability for that?… Read More
Did you, how did you manage it administratively?… Read More
Is there a primer for building an animal hospital?… Read More
Is there books that people look at, or is it just common sense, or what would you say?… Read More
architects have common sense. That’s what my philosophy was, if you take anybody that designs a hospital should have to go work with an animal, should have to clean cages, should have to shift an animal, should, you know, be around and work and see what the problems are, and… Read More
I knew my question now was around, you talked about the hospital at Front Royal, you’ve had the opportunity to build two hospitals, when you built the hospital at Front Royal, was that because at the time you were doing it, you knew you were going over there, or you… Read More
Well we were told the vet, when the Smithsonian acquired Front Royal, it was the old Calvary Remount station for the Army where they bred horses and mules for World War I, and it had a great facility, and we had 3,000 acres, and it was touted as going to… Read More
So by building the hospital when we did, when we probably had a little bit more money than we do now, it allowed us to grow into a facility that now I think meets the needs of the facility there. Read More
I had one technician, and we had a nice hospital there, one of the hospitals I built. So we had a good facility, adequate equipment, and we had enough traffic from going from Front Royal to Washington DC with various people that I could take blood samples, get ’em into… Read More
What do you think the veterinarian’s role should be in conservation since Front Royal is kind of a conservation place?… Read More
Well, I think the veterinarian’s role is multifaceted, because the veterinarian I think should probably, one of the major roles that usually people think about is the person that you know is evaluating the health, and the animals and keeping the animals alive, and doing, you know, finding diseases, and… Read More
And why, we’ll go right into it then, why did you transition to Chief of Veterinary Services Conservation and Research Center at Front Royal after that?… Read More