I’m gonna walk into the stall and he’s gonna charge me and I’ll put his horns into the wall on either side of me, but he’ll try and pick me up and throw me off. So Paul, you gotta drape yourself over his neck so he can’t pick us both… Read More
So I said, well he’s, he’s still got a sedative on board. He’s as sleepy as he’s gonna get. Read More
And it, it worked great and you know, we just did some routine stuff, hoof trims, physical exam. And, you know, at the end of it we were high fiving each other and we, we woke him up. It was a drug, it was a drug that was partially a… Read More
What if, what if you tried to lure him up to this side of the stall with a treat?… Read More
Bente Bente is one that, that folks know about. There was the, the one that I, the one that I tell zoo people that generally makes them drop their jaws in disbelief. When I was doing my residency at St. Louis, we had an, an anesthesia resident, so he is… Read More
Is there one where you were involved?… Read More
So in your, in your history with the zoo and people meet you and you have a unique position and they say, is there any story that’s a personal favorite of yours?… Read More
You know, you know, don’t, aren’t they negligent in terms of not letting kids climb up and over barriers, et cetera, et cetera. But mom, who was a nurse, knew that for the rest of his life, anytime it was a slow news Newsday somewhere, certainly on the anniversaries, somebody… Read More
And so it got press attention from around the world. Read More
And so when they, when they did that, the gorillas, you know, one of the females kind of directed everybody to go down and shift off exhibit and Bente went up and set the, set the child down next to the door where, where she went in. And so now… Read More
And in, in normal circumstances today, somebody would be putting microphones in the parents’ faces and, and saying, you know, why do you think the zoo did this?… Read More
And he sort of ricocheted off a sloping wall and wound up unconscious on the floor in the water. And one of our females, benty, who had her own youngster on her hip, came over and scooped him up and was holding him. And you can see from the video… Read More
Can you relate the story of a Brookfield Zoo when you were involved with a child that fell into the Gorilla Exhibit?… Read More
But as it was when he got really, really ataxic and unsteady, he stepped back off the edge of the building and sat down in the bushes and went to sleep. Read More
That was another very interesting day. That was, I was actually in a meeting in this room, we’re in the Brookfield Zoos conference room. We’re in a meeting with all of the senior animal management staff, and I had stepped out to my office to get something and heard this… Read More
And Otto walked up the back steps to the building and she was looking out the window at him. And because Sinbad was the only gorilla she took care of in the panic, she just thought Gorilla Sinbad. And, and that’s the call that she made. But Otto had actually… Read More
’cause he didn’t make the move based on social compatibility and what had happened. So, so we packed up all of our stuff knowing that he was gonna be contained within the building ’cause that’s the only place he could have escaped into. And so we were getting ready to,… Read More
And so I pulled the truck kind of across, closing that triangle and darted him and then backed off and just waited for him to go to sleep. He walked up on top of the Crown Field Center in the middle of the, the zoo scared the whatever out of… Read More
That was an interesting one. That was auto. And we were, we were having rounds and, and by rounds, I mean hospital rounds. This is when Dr. Baker, now Dr. Thomas was working with me. And so she and Joel Pond, the vet tech were sitting around my desk, we… Read More
Can you relate that story and your reactions?… Read More