Oh, I don’t know. I think applied clinical research, answering questions that we have in day-to-day stuff, just getting the basic information from doing some, not Nobel Prize winning research, but research that’s important that veterinarians are gonna use and we’re gonna help the animals win. And then teaching, I… Read More
It’s been a long interview, haven’t it?… Read More
With the move to naturalistic exhibits, and keeping animals in more naturalistic groups where possible, did veterinary care help or hinder these changes?… Read More
Probably leaving it. I don’t know, it’s … I think there was some who would disagree with that. I think there’s a lot that would agree with it too. Read More
Now if I could allow you to blow your own horn for a minute, what are some of your most important contributions to the zoo world?… Read More
We spent a lot of time, I started, helped start a department in that, so I guess I have to be an advocate for it. Read More
Do you see a realistic role in assisted reproductive technique in maintaining endangered species?… Read More
I think is the most important. We’ve already shown that we can manage the genetic population of black-footed ferrets by frozen semen from some of the original founders that have already died and get offspring from that. We’ve also showed in cheetahs that we’ve been able to get cheetahs in… Read More
And could you comment on AI, ET semen sexing, the rank of importance, these things?… Read More
I don’t know. Hopefully it continues to be education and entertainment, and conservation up until the ability of the individual zoo, whether as we discussed in a local area, or internationally, depending on their funding interests and staff. Read More
Oh yes. No doubt. Yep, we still have to push back the frontiers of ignorance. There’s so much we don’t know. And the questions we don’t know are getting harder and harder to solve, because we’ve already solved the easy ones, or many of the easy ones. Read More
Did you feel it was important, and would continue to be important for research from the veterinary field?… Read More
Well … I think, you know, as certain as the education, I went through two phases at the National Zoo, where the keepers were all initially some of the lowest paid because the National Zoo used to be a city zoo, before it became a federal zoo, so we got… Read More
We don’t know what’s going on.” We may not, I would say we’re gonna find out what’s going on, or we’ll work with you, and we’ll hopefully find out what is going on, but that was just, that happened one time, and I thought it was an interesting …… Read More
In your opinion, what role do you think zoos will play in the future?… Read More
In your career were there issues that concerned you and the most, and if there were major conditions that concerned you, how do you see the future regarding those type of conditions?… Read More
You don’t tell somebody, especially in a zoo situation, “I have no idea what’s going on, right?… Read More
How important is it for the veterinarian to have the, I’ll use the word confidence of the animal keeper, so you make sure they will come to you with issues about their animals?… Read More
That’s again a classic problem. Some people wouldn’t tell you because they’re afraid you’re gonna anesthetize it or do something, so they would keep things from you. And I think I overcame that by, you know, hopefully with the rapport, I had a little bit of that early on, but… Read More
I’m here to work with you on this, but I’m not gonna be treated, offer a treatment that I think is the best and then have you decide on a medical thing.” I said, “We can discuss it, but you’re not the final word on it.” How important would you… Read More