Ah, great memories. I still relive my childhood, especially around Christmas time, but I don’t remember much from my first five years. ’cause you know, you’re kind of young, but I always consider Milwaukee my adopted hometown. ’cause I moved up there when I was five years old. I lived… Read More
My name is Jim Robinett. I was born in Chicago and my birthdate is February 13th, 1952. Read More
Yeah, I, I, I think obviously I have a good understanding of what a zoo veterinarian does and all of the different aspects of the, the things that go into that. And the thing that has interested me most about zoo medicine is I never had any experience or anything… Read More
You know, in terms of all the, of the variety of experience and expertise that you need, How would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More
I guess I’d like to be remembered for some of these programs that we’ve created. You know, I talked about the Zoo pathology program. I’m not involved with that directly at all, but it’s one that is gonna succeed for many years to come and generate a tremendous amount of… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
And now I’m, I, I mentioned this collaboration with Loyola. I’m, I’m getting excited to speak about my field and my career and what I’ve learned with a whole bunch of eager, enthusiastic medical students that are considerably younger than my children. So it just, it’s interesting. Read More
I have, you know, sort of in the last half of my career I got involved with a ZA accreditation in a much deeper manner. I had always done a ZA accreditation inspections, but in 2000 I got asked to be on the commission. And so I did a six… Read More
’cause we’re all going away at some point. And so, you know, it, the key to it really is there has to be succession planning. Read More
To what part, are you still active in the field?… Read More
Yeah, I think that the big challenge is, you know, succession planning. You know, if an individual, you know, an individual can have an infinite amount of money, and, and if there aren’t, if he or she doesn’t build a group around them that have a similar passion that are… Read More
Will they survey survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
What do the pluses and minuses have?… Read More
Do you think we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help what you talked about shift public opinion for conservation such as Jacques Gusto win, Jane, Jane goodall?… Read More
It, it’s tough because things are so diffused nowadays. You know, when you think about, in a time when there were three networks, when an article in Life magazine could literally have a, a national, a nationwide impact with media and messaging, so diffuse it. It’s hard to, to have… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
I think so. I, everybody, everybody needs to make career choices with their eyes open. And I think we’re, you know, whether you’re looking at zoo veterinary career or zoo career, or a career in wildlife, I, I think those are, those are all things where there are, you know,… Read More
It’s been an extremely rewarding career and you counsel people about pluses and minuses and choices. So, okay. Read More
I was just at his wedding, he works in a private practice in a aquarium out out east. And I remember, you know, he came to me at the stage when he’d been accepted to three different veterinary schools and, and I, and he said, which one, you know, who… Read More
Getting people to, to understand what nature needs to succeed and, and inspire them to, you know, to, to value nature and natural places. Read More