Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 56
So I gave this idea to him one day, can we not, ’cause you know, how flamingos feed by, you know, dabbling upside down, could we work on, could we use a floating diet?… Read More
So I gave this idea to him one day, can we not, ’cause you know, how flamingos feed by, you know, dabbling upside down, could we work on, could we use a floating diet?… Read More
Can you relate the story of how Missouri Foods was started?… Read More
Yeah, we, there was a BP British petroleum, which most people are familiar with, the one of the local garages selling them gas, bp and I think they still do, had an, has an, an animal nutrition department. And, and what happened there was the fla, we had several groups… Read More
But we got to a point where we were very confident that we could keep an animal just lightly sed sedated enough that it wasn’t, I mean, still sort of awake, but, but not, certainly not aggressive or frightened. And, and you can imagine some of the looks that we… Read More
No. And, and, and folks today, particularly on a, you know, just on a safety and public health and your own health point of view would be horrified at some of these stories. But we obviously, we moved an, well, we moved animals fairly frequently between Regent Spark and whip… Read More
Was it best practice at the time?… Read More
And that’s a, that’s, you know, a lot of kids, of course are very shy, often their parents are not, which can be a, an issue, it can be a challenge sometimes, but, but I always say to any, any youngster, teenager, you know, look for experience and look for… Read More
Yeah, no, that, that comes back to mum with the 14-year-old daughter. And, and I think all of us in the zoo world, and, and I found, particularly in the veterinary world, talking to my own sort of veterinary colleagues or folks who qualify with me, it’s much the same. Read More
You have used the phrase, in a competitive world, look for every opportunity to build your experience and showcase it pro proactively to a prospective employer. What did you mean?… Read More
Let’s, let’s give it a minimal dose and see, see what happens. And it just happens. Muskox, actually, I would rather sensitive oversensitive to these drugs. So the first, so I thought, I’m gonna have to give this animal maybe two or more darts to make sure I’m not killing… Read More
So you have to, you know, you think, ah, well if I, if this was a cow at 600 pounds, what would I, what would I do with that?… Read More
So I mean, in, for example, I remember we had a, a particularly ferocious muskox bull. We had a little group of muskox and, and one, I remember one day when the keepers came running to me to say, the muskox bull has broken out through the roof of his… Read More
So what do you do?… Read More
Well, there was, there’d been a fair amount of work for some years by a guy called Tony Harthorne in South Africa. ’cause obviously managing, you know, managing those parks required that sort of knowledge. But the drugs were fairly, the drugs at the time were not particularly effective. And,… Read More
Was it all trial and error?… Read More
Very new, yeah. Read More
How, what prepared you to do this, if anything?… Read More
So tranquilizing was still a pretty new science when you were there?… Read More
Because, because I’d got this degree in zoology halfway through the veterinary course, I, I actually was eligible for Fellowship, scientific Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, which I immediately joined. And also I think, you know, through my teens, my interest was very much in Hoofstock. Still is,… Read More
Oh, absolutely. Fresh outta school. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely. How did You start coping with, they’re not cows, how did you start coping with some of these unique illnesses? Yeah, or, Well, I had What did you refer with?… Read More