Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 12
Or a mammal guy?… Read More
Or a mammal guy?… Read More
Yeah, I saw zoos. My mother and father were divorced when I was very young, but my mother was a zoo buff, so whenever was an opportunity, we went to the zoo or collected animals somewhere. Read More
Oh yeah, anything that was loose, possums, raccoons, little ones, anything that one could incarcerate. Read More
Do you have pets as you were growing up?… Read More
What was your birthday?… Read More
And as you were growing up, did you see other zoos?… Read More
February 7th, 1933. So the first zoo you ever saw was Brookfield Zoo. Brookfield. Read More
It rubbed off. (laughs) And what was the date to the year?… Read More
Brookfield, Illinois. Actually, I was born in Oak Park but delivered home, and it was a strange little thing. My father decided that I should go to the zoo on the way home in hospital when I was born, so I was delivered to the zoo, so I saw the… Read More
Well, my name’s Robert Bean, Beveridge Bean. Strange middle name, but it’s the same as hers. What was the rest of… Born in Brookfield. Read More
Brookfield, Illinois?… Read More
And how would you like to be remembered?… Read More
I’m still learning about it. I mean, I’m not sure what that question means, except that it’s fitting an important niche in both veterinary medicine and zoos, because of the interest and the need. Read More
Oh, I don’t know. Oh, I was thinking he was talking about my WWF career. No, I don’t know. I think doing some clinical research, trying to improve the care of our animals, and teaching and developing a few things that have helped future veterinarians take care of animals better. Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
I think so people can have the experience we talked about with the elephant, to see an elephant. You can see an elephant on TV, you can see a giraffe on TV or rhino on TV, I don’t care if you’ve got the extra wide HD, the 3D stuff, you’re… Read More
What do I know about it?… Read More
Yeah, but it’s very interesting, ’cause I was talking to Mike Stoskopf, who’s a professor up at North Carolina, and we talked about these CDs that you hand out like that. He said “Only 5% of ’em are ever used.” Now somebody’s done a study. So that really kind of… Read More
They were gonna throw that all away, just like I did archived, and so there’s, it’s just, if I haven’t, I think the philosophy, if I haven’t done it, it doesn’t exist, or it’s not important. Which, you know, I could almost strangle people like that. But there’s probably some… Read More
Why do we still need zoos?… Read More