Yeah. You know, legitimate subspecies, I think a million and a half years ago, it evolved and unfortunately, we had too few animals, got our hands on ’em too late to save it. There was certainly talk about, I think it’s 16 generations, we could have bred 16 different or… Read More
I mean, if you want to go back in the computer and pull it up later because it’s easier to access your article, okay, fine. But don’t gimme that deer in the headlight look like you don’t know who Lydekker was and all of that stuff. So it’s vital, to… Read More
If they don’t know everything they wrote, please understand how important those gentlemen were in our industry. And when you say the name, don’t give me the deer in the headlight look. ‘Cause it’s a dead giveaway that you don’t know who I’m talking about. I made it a practice… Read More
You know what?… Read More
And then who’s to blame?… Read More
It’d be beautiful to have water in gorilla exhibits, but you don’t have water moats in gorilla exhibits ’cause they’ll drown. If I picked up the phone right now and called five curators in five different zoos, I wonder how many people could answer that question correctly. So my fear… Read More
You gotta blame somebody. You can’t blame the gorilla. And we have to blame ourselves for not educating enough. So it’s vitally important. Read More
Why is it that you don’t have water in gorilla exhibits?… Read More
Why did they do that?… Read More
You know, why was that exhibit built like that?… Read More
How do they say that?… Read More
You have mentioned it says, many newer, younger, aquarium professionals might be called computer curators, with little knowledge of the precepts of Heger, or Crandall, or Conway, or knowledge, or resources of books like the “International Zoo Yearbook”, how important for the future of zoos is it to keep this… Read More
If you don’t know your past, you will not be able to manage your future. You’ve gotta know, you gotta know these basics. And yes, you can say, oh, well, those were old dilapidated exhibit designs. But the fundamentals are what you’ve gotta learn. Read More
He goes, push off on the glass?… Read More
So the 6,000-pound hippo’s gonna push off on the glass like a swimmer does. Yeah. I don’t know how to design that. So we had to get an engineer in to help ’em figure out what the push rate’s gonna be underwater. And that certainly took the project back a… Read More
That was the ultimate test in all of that. So, I mean there’s some things that you just have no idea and then you put an engineer on it and while you feel a little bit better, even the engineer goes, I can’t guarantee this, you know, but the glass… Read More
But the best one was the glass guy who said, well, so is this hippo gonna touch the glass?… Read More
Well, a lot of filtration people wouldn’t even touch it. But we did our best and they had to add filtration down the road because we didn’t hit the mark. Read More
We said absolutely he’s gonna touch the glass, probably gonna push off on the glass. Read More
You know, just to see. So I would say, you know, those are probably some of my prouder ones and I mean, there’s stuff that I started in San Diego that I was just there in the initial period. It’s already built, and gone now, and somebody else took over. Read More