So they’re, you know, you have to be careful with what you’re doing. You have to be selective with what you’re doing. But it’s been very successful at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, you know, and you don’t always touch the animal you’re feeding. I mean, and it is just like… Read More
I don’t care what that connectivity is to get them thinking about animals, thinking about nature. That’s our mission. And hopefully they’ll keep growing that connectivity, keep that connectivity for their entire life, and care about animals and their habitat and care about animals. Back to conservation a bit, many… Read More
The way I got energy, if I was having a real grumpy day in my office, I would go out into the zoo and watch those kids go, wow, that is why I got up every morning is to, is to see those happy faces, the oh wow. Experiences when… Read More
You know, it’s, some zoos are very critical of that. I think the, the message that it’s conveying is looking at the adaptation the animal has. I don’t think there’s, if the animals are conditioned for it, and it’s not negative, if it’s good animal welfare, I mean, the more… Read More
What is the message you feel this should convey?… Read More
Oh, I, I, my wife love my wife dearly. I married a zookeeper. She used to always chastises me when I got home. You make it around the zoo today, you make it around the zoo today. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t make it. Every day. I’m very, and… Read More
How important do you feel it is for the zoo director to make rounds?… Read More
But I think the more a director, because again, the, the director is the keeper of the dream, and the dream is that institution, are we doing it right?… Read More
Oh yes, absolutely. Abs abso positivity. It definitely, they go, that’s really amazing that we got to experience in the wild. But it’s also amazing that the Lincoln Children’s Zoo is making that commitment as well to help save species. Absolutely. You know, you, you know, when you’re in the… Read More
And so I’ve had some of our travelers actually give funds back to the countries they visited to help the peoples and help the species in those countries. You indicated you’re an animal guy, but you were pulled away a lot as director to, to do other things. Read More
I think it’s really important, to be honest with you. You know, some people would, would, would criticize that, oh yeah, you’re going over there and you know, you’re disturbing them in their natural habitat. Well, as we discussed earlier, Serengeti Masai Mara, they are big zoos. They are big… Read More
They’ll, they’ll work at, at the breeding center there for the, for the tortoises. They’ll go on an island and help wipe out invasive plant material on islands. Okay. The Galapagos Islands that they’re trying to get back to the natural habitat. So we’ve taken youth to, and we’ve taken… Read More
And did that tourism or you taking people to Africa ever work out that people appreciated the zoo more and wanted to give money?… Read More
How important do you think tourism in Africa, per se, is to protecting species long term?… Read More
It doesn’t have to be a gorilla, you know, right there, it can be a little bit of everything. ’cause that Oh wow. Experience You have taken in your career a number of trips to Africa with people. Read More
We as adults have higher expectations of Oh wow. Because we see too many stupid movies. Okay. And we need to be impacted right away. Children have a whole different perspective of Oh wow. Even though they’re very connected electronically. You give us some great experiences at the children at… Read More
And you can climb up just like the spider monkeys 20 feet up in the air Okay. And be nose to nose with the spider monkey. ’cause the spider monkeys very interested in you and is just absolutely wonderful. So you’re climbing up, they’re climbing up. Okay. That’s, oh wow. Read More
And, you know, if we bring out an animal on, on the stage and show them how the serv could jump 10 feet in the air and hit the feathers that we have dangling about it going, oh wow, okay. It’s, it’s not out in its habitat. They’re just seeing… Read More
How when you were building exhibits, how did you try and achieve a wow impact when you were looking at exhibit design?… Read More
And that’s one thing you’ll see at the Lincoln Children Zoo. We didn’t build the big gunite walls of Yes, we, we have, we have utilized a little bit of it, but the wow is, look at that animal. My gosh. When you’re standing on, when you’re standing 10 feet… Read More