Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 599
No, I had a very good crew of elephant people. I know there a lot of carry-on about elephants these days. Yes. And I’ve not been involved in it, so I’m not aware of…… Read More
No, I had a very good crew of elephant people. I know there a lot of carry-on about elephants these days. Yes. And I’ve not been involved in it, so I’m not aware of…… Read More
Keepers going in with them?… Read More
Or were you always…… Read More
Busch Gardens had some?… Read More
Mm-hmm. Read More
management problems in dealing with them?… Read More
Yes, funding for ’em, yeah. Read More
Did Louisville have elephants?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Oh yeah, that’s one of the things that everybody… Some especially more than others but get their name printed on there so that everybody can see it, which is fine if it’s for real. Read More
Did people wanna put their name on exhibits?… Read More
That helped you to get some of the buildings in the various zoos?… Read More
Somebody sees a bat-eared fox running across the prairie: “My goodness, look at that, would you?… Read More
(Robert laughs) (Mark laughs) So that helped you bring in certain animals. Or bring in… Well, I guess, eventually, it’s animal but the exhibits themselves, new exhibits. Read More
Could we get some of those?” They’ve never seen anything like that. That’s really a nothing sort of little animal. Read More
Yeah. Bringing people here. They think you’re so smart, too. Read More
And then, “oh my goodness, could we get some of those for our zoo?” And “yeah, we think we had probably could.” That helped you in your cultivation of money?… Read More
Well, you’re smarter than they are, right?… Read More
These were the African trips, right?… Read More
Yeah, or whatever trips, overseas. Yeah, they’re a good way to promote a zoo and promote the growth of the zoo and the interest in having these animals that we’ve gone out and see them in the wild. Read More