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Do you feel we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservations?… Read More

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Obviously example of Jacque Gusto or Jane Goodall?… Read More

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Yeah, it does. I mean, as when I was in Sacramento, we certainly did it with hoad and I think you can do it with hosta because they’re basically animals that we eat, you know, and so people sort of have a, we’re never gonna u we’re never gonna euthanize… Read More

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I think it’s very important. That’s how we have these species, those species we have that are endangered conservation breeding, if that’s what you want to call it. So they’re parting for our education programs and to teach people about different types of conservation such as human animal, human wildlife… Read More

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What do you feel is the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More

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How should zoos think about dealing with surplus animals?… Read More

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And does euthanizing of endangered species ’cause of surplus genetic issues still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More

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He said, a hundred percent, you know, he is, you gotta understand you’re gonna have some sad times. Never bothered me too much. I’m not saying I’m not, didn’t feel bad when an animal passed away. But I, the ones that, the ones that bothered me the most were elephants… Read More

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So Two parts. Read More

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You gotta understand as, as when people ask Bill Conway how many animals die in a zoo?… Read More

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But I just, I just enjoyed it. But I don’t know what’s not to enjoy about it. Again, you, we’ve talked a little bit about politics and depends how the zoo is organized and sometimes that can cause a problem. Read More

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I think ’cause it’s a great profession. You gotta be passionate about it, you know, you gotta understand it know, I think it’s a great profession and there it’s a lot of fun. I mean I, you know, I travel the world as a zoo director for god’s sake. So,… Read More

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Would you recommend the zoo, aquarium field to a young person with a sincere interest in wildlife and conservation today? Why?… Read More

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Benedict was a drama teacher and I had just been elected senior class president. I was giving some speech and she took me aside, I gotta teach you to public speak. He said, I gotta teach you to project. Now you can see I’m yelling too much. So I have… Read More

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I supported my best friend Mike and the other guy got elected. So I wasn’t gonna get appointed to the Hees saw that I got appointed to a position so I could have something to do for that semester. So I’ve, I’ve learned things from, a lot of people have… Read More

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And when I went to San San Francisco, Margaret Burs was my boss, Peggy Burs, and she was the head of the Zeus Society. She got us taking a class called Management by Objectives. And my whole life I’ve worked that out, you know, where you set up plans and… Read More

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You’ve had mentors, what lessons did you take away from ’em?… Read More

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Everybody I worked for gave me something. As I said, Warren Thomas, one of the things he taught me is no matter how small the, the pro, how small the issue is, do it. If I say do it. So when I was that assistant curator, you know, I, Rick… Read More

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We don’t have to do that. It took a long time to change people’s mind, but now that we do it, everybody understands that, that elephants are much better off. They, they, they have choice and they, they volunteer to do things. They’re smart animals, they do it. So I… Read More

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There’s a lot of quotes. I like, I think, I think it was Warren Thomas that told me, and maybe he quoted somebody else, it’s not enough to be right and what it, what it meant. And that, and remember I grew up in the fifties and the sixties and… Read More

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