It, it does. I I think it’s all part of the issue of sustainability sustaining populations over the, over the long term. You know, we we’re challenged to have large open spaces or spaces for large breeding groups of animals, and I think one of the, one of the solutions… Read More
I, I think one of the challenges historically is in, in a place that we are improving is thinking back 20 years ago, it, it was easy to talk about habitat disappearing in Africa and there deforestation in, in South America, it was easy to talk about the challenges that… Read More
It, it’s, it’s very important. I think in addition to putting on annual conferences, we, I just got back from an international conference that was a collaboration among the European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Vets and the A A ZV up in Toronto, Canada. And, and so as a… Read More
Can can you speak to how important the American Association of Zoo veterinarians is to the profession?… Read More
Do you think space continues to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
I, I think one of the things, one of the areas where we’ve really advanced and where I think we need to continue to advance is in the area of diagnostics. We’ve always, we in zoo medicine have always had a challenge compared to our colleagues work with domestic animals. Read More
Yeah. That, that has been integrating with integrating with the behaviorists and the animal care staff in order to more easily get hands on animals. This took a real, this took a real upward swing when COVD vaccinations became available for zoo animals. And, you know, there was a, there… Read More
Would you say operat conditioning and training has been a big boon to veterinarians and laying hands and doing things and blood draws on unique animals?… Read More
How do we deal with, you know, some of these other particular things, cardiovascular disease and gorillas and other great apes. But your problems are of a broader scope and, and involved in, in zoo management. And I think one of the, one of the challenges that we face is… Read More
What issues would you like to see Zeus address in Zoom medicine in the future?… Read More
How do you see the future regarding those issues?… Read More
I think from a, from a medical standpoint, I think one of the things, one of the other changes that has happened is veterinarians have gone from being more or less animal plumbers, which is the, the veterinarians are in their private practice or they’re in the zoo hospital, and… Read More
The veterinarians are, you know, their, their problem isn’t, how do we deal with hoof care and giraffes?… Read More
I, I think one of the biggest changes is, well, the, probably the biggest change is a result of the fact that we’ve got more access to animals back not long before I started there, there weren’t very good anesthetics if, if all you had was ether and barbiturates, you… Read More
In your career, what changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding zoo medicine?… Read More
Well, what changes have you seen, or what issues most caused you concern during your career and those issues?… Read More
What is the, how important is that relationship between the zoo pathologist or the pathologist and the veterinarian?… Read More
I started my training, my formal zoo training. I started at St. Louis. I started working at the St. Louis Zoo in 1970, working in the refreshment stands, trying to get work in the, in the children’s zoo, and then moved into the children’s zoo. And the, the very first… Read More
And before I, while I was still at Lincoln Park Zoo, I actually got together with my predecessor here at Brookfield and came up with the idea of collaborating with the University of Illinois for a formal zoo pathology program. And, and so we started a collaboration among Brookfield Zoo,… Read More
And then immediately he’s like, oh my god, that’s not something that he can survive. I mean, that, that’s not something that, you know, is within our scope to treat. And then as we thought about it a little more, we consulted with some neurosurgeons over there and, and they… Read More