Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 330
It was “between this zoo and that zoo is a 18-pack” (Mark chuckles) or a six-pack. (chuckles) Now, when your father passed away, did that affect you in your involvement in zoos?… Read More
It was “between this zoo and that zoo is a 18-pack” (Mark chuckles) or a six-pack. (chuckles) Now, when your father passed away, did that affect you in your involvement in zoos?… Read More
And that took ya all around the United States?… Read More
Well, not necessarily all around, but no, we did travel a bit. Our map was a six-pack of…… Read More
Can you tell me a little about that business venture?… Read More
Well, I just worked with Frank. We’d drive around the countryside, buying up surplus and having a list of who needed what, so that’s what we did. Read More
No, not at the Houston Zoo. No, I was between jobs, and I was working with Frank Thompson. Frank Thompson. Yeah, Frank and I were buying and selling animals. Read More
It was just before I… It was ’74, thereabouts. Now, you mentioned you delivered some antelope to the Houston Zoo. Yeah. Read More
You know the zoo director?… Read More
Well, some thought there might be something to it, and some thought I was an old hair-brained bluenose director. No, I don’t know. I did enjoy that because it was thought of by a lotta folks that maybe it really was ivorybill and that I did see an ivorybill, the… Read More
This was in the ’70s?… Read More
(Robert laughs) Well, I was driving; it was down through Alabama, not Alabama, Louisiana; and saw this bird fly across in front of me in the swamps of southern Louisiana. Bird flew across in front of me the way parrot, I mean woodpeckers, fly, and I saw this bird: “My… Read More
There were some fellows that think they saw it. I don’t know. Read More
What was the reaction when people heard that?… Read More
The ivory-billed woodpecker?… Read More
But you were involved in a very unique situation with a very unique bird, weren’t you?… Read More
In the wild?… Read More
Were there some group you really liked?… Read More
Did you have favorite animals at Busch or at Louisville?… Read More
Well, no, more or less all of ’em. I didn’t really have a real specific. Read More
Did the glamour of being the zoo director wear off in the day to day?… Read More