Yeah, so well yeah, Larry. So Larry came on, Larry, I met Larry out at University of Maryland one afternoon. I was getting ready to go home and Larry was looking at the bulletin board and he said, excuse me. He said, are you a student here? I said, yeah. Read More
What was I trying to say? You’re Talking about Gene and his value?… Read More
And my major was in ethology or animal behavior, classical ology. Read More
And so where were we?… Read More
So I actually worked for him one summer in the Lion House basement, cleaning the cages. ’cause there were these two giant bays filled with 10 wrecks and the newspapers had to be changed every day. And the water had to be changed. And then they had to be fed… Read More
And I always gave John copies of ’em. I was very pleased when I saw that he even had ’em on the walls of his house. You know, like a 10 wreck sticking his head out of a cardboard nest box. And John had it on the wall of his… Read More
So I kind of got a little bit into that, that work, which was nice. And what, what else were, Well you mentioned, Where were we, Well you mentioned that with, with John, just to follow through with that, you mentioned with John that he had a number of small… Read More
Right. Could you speak of just a bit about each gentleman who I could say was the senior keeper who kind of ram ratted this collection and value?… Read More
Yeah, that was Gene Linac. Reed gave, actually, Reed made tremendous sacrifices for Eisenberg. You know, he knew that research was important to Ripley so he could satisfy Ripley and also be a leader within the North American zoos because there wasn’t much of this going on in other zoos… Read More
And he had a big project with Hal Buchner who worked down at the Museum of Natural History as an ecologist famous for discovering the Lex system, the lech mating system in the Uganda Cobb. And he had been a professor of Eisenberg’s when he was at Pullman at Washington… Read More
I mean he had this huge team that went out there and were doing research on ecology of vertebrates and plants and everything in Sri Laka. It was a fantastic project and I had a chance to go there. I could have studied, I was interested in vi varis and… Read More
It was like the catacombs. And it was horrible under there. His fungus growing on the walls and stuff was when they hosed down the lion cages stuff was coming out of the foundation into the place. You had to get the hell out of there ’cause it stunk so… Read More
He was a brilliant person, had a great mind, could be highly entertaining. He had the gift of Oratory, he had a lot of things going for him. And he and Reid struck it off well to begin with. But it kind of got, it got a little bit, John… Read More
Certainly zoo management or conservation biology. Yeah. Well, When Ted Reed lost L Grimmer, who was kind of his research man and scientist at the zoo, Ripley was pushing him to get another scientist. ’cause Ripley was all for research and science, you know. And so Ted knew that if… Read More
And so John got hired and he then set up offices in the zoo and he became adjunct at the University of Maryland. And he was, you know, he just, he just went for it. And he, Reed gave him what he wanted. So he got the top of the… Read More
Can you kind mention who he was and what his effect was?… Read More
At least in the same form that it was in its pristine condition. And so make the most of what you’ve been able to experience, be happy that you lived in that kind of warp in time when we were here. You mentioned the name Eisenberg. Read More
So I think the challenges are even greater than they were in the past. I mean, now the latest thing, one of the most recent things that have happened is that the, the public lands in the West where the black-footed ferrets have been allowed to expand to provide the… Read More
If conservation is a political issue, how can you talk about conservation without being identified as the enemy within, you know?… Read More
Well, I’m not really up to date on what’s going on nowadays, but I know that the stressors are still there and getting bigger and more threatening than they’ve been in the past. Because they all have to do with basically human population growth and exploitation of natural resources. And… Read More