Now, they’re brought about by lobbying agencies, and all that, but we can lobby. And we need to lobby for better protection, for fewer problems in the environment. And I think that’s paramount for the zoos to do, because they get the bulk of the people coming through them more… Read More
What’s the most efficient way to deal with elected officials and municipal bureaucrats in order to develop and manage a zoo today?… Read More
And I’d like, I’m gonna see that some other zoos get to look at it.” “Sure, I’ll get it in the mail to you.” Well, okay, I dug a pit and now I’m trapped in it. I got my friend in the physics department at TCU to give me a… Read More
What would be the top, the three top qualities you think a curator should have today?… Read More
I think number one, he has to have empathy for life, for live animals. He has to be sensitive, by that I mean he needs to be sensitive to what their needs are. He needs to know about those needs, and he needs to respond to those needs in a… Read More
Does the Denver Zoo know about that?” I said, “I don’t know.” He said, “Can you send me the schematics of that device?… Read More
You know, that’s what they use in the prisons to do away with fellow human beings and it works fine.” He said, “That’s fascinating. Read More
So I won’t have to go into it here. But it’s, I think it’s humane, and it’s effective and it’s quick. (snaps fingers) And if you’re gonna kill it, it’s probably quicker than what the steaks you had for dinner took for that cow to be killed anyway. And that… Read More
I hate to tell you this, and I hope you don’t pass this on. But I think I told you we had a meeting, national meeting, of the Humane Society at our herpetarium, when they met in Fort Worth. And the head of one of the societies asked me that… Read More
If you feed them dead, how do you kill them?… Read More
Excellent question. Well, first I think they do need to clean up anything that borders on inhumaneness, on an animal that is not behaving normally, and living in normal, reasonably natural, I’ll use, the natural life. And if they’re, they can’t do that, then we either need to change the… Read More
The only question I had, which I thought was a very val valid question, how do you kill the mice?… Read More
‘Cause if you do it in Fort Worth, they’ll want me to do that in Dallas.” You know, he later took on the Dallas Zoo. So he’s been in the business. He was in the business a long time. We did it. We did it. We kept those feeding things… Read More
What issues would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More
Okay, AAZPA. Unfortunately, I really can’t answer that. I don’t have enough current knowledge. Read More
Visitor attitudes have been 1,000% improved by education with TV, or with our zoos and aquariums, greatly. People know things today that they, that they never could have known before. So I think our public is much, is very well educated on zoology and on animal life. I don’t think… Read More
And I think that the key to zoos surviving in whatever mode they’re gonna survive in should encompass those qualities, which you looked for when you did your accreditation. Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes and administration at the national level?… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these types of groups?… Read More
Well, in my zoo lifetime, I never really had to confront that problem of people that wanted to get rid of zoos. Now, I’d have to say in some cases I’ve seen a lot of zoos that should be done away with, quite frankly. And so I would have to… Read More