Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 713
So, so you have to say, am I doing it?… Read More
So, so you have to say, am I doing it?… Read More
The gorilla doesn’t care if it’s a straight wall or it’s got contours and it’s colored. I don’t think they care about that as long as they got other vegetation and stuff in the exhibit. Read More
Who am I doing this for?… Read More
You’re doing that for the public, right?… Read More
Well, it’s hard to prove, but after many, many years, people going through those exhibits and seeing those gorillas, some of them are gonna help save them in the wild in some way. And, and it should. You spend millions of dollars just on making rock, you know, incredible rock… Read More
There are two different pots of money. It, the, the person that’s gonna give you millions of dollars for a gorilla exhibit is not necessarily gonna give you millions of dollars to save them in the wild. They’re different type of people. ’cause you are at a zoo with 2… Read More
Now talked about you raised a million dollars when a zoo spends multimillion dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or a tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this money is not used to help animals in the wild. You say what?… Read More
You’re spending all this millions of dollars and what, how’s it saving gorillas?… Read More
Is it worth, is it worth, is it worth this kind of double standard sometimes that we put ourselves in?… Read More
But you have to think about, you know, what, what’s the end result gonna be for this?… Read More
That, you know, he, he was glad that he made that impact. But, but I, nobody’s perfect. He did a lot of things that were, were, were questionable. We all, we all have to some degree. Read More
They called Jack Hannon. They didn’t call Bill Conway. They didn’t call the experts. They called Jack. So Jack, Jack was a figurehead for us. But some of the real scientific people think he made, he, he, he kind of degraded our profession by clowning around on tv. It’s a… Read More
Yes. Again, the end justifies the mean means. Jack Hannah was a clown on TV with David Letterman. But people liked him and he brought attention to stuff. And he really was committed to conservation. He, that’s the only way he could do it. That Jack was Jack, you know,… Read More
You know, it’s, it’s, we judged, we judge fame differently, reward things differently. But for some reason, Jane said the test of time and, and we’re finding that out more in that she passed, how many people she impacted. But she, she traveled all the time. She, and she lived… Read More
Did he do things in, in your opinion, for betterment of the zoo community?… Read More
But, but Jane, Jane was, Jane was very spiritual, you know, I, I asked her one time if she believed in God, and she said, I believe in God, but religion gets in the way. Now one other person, She doesn’t like me to quote, Well, no, no one other… Read More
You know, people become, you know, famous after a couple of years from just, you know, they go viral on TikTok or something and they become, you know, these like stu stupid. Read More
You, you know, you know, there’s names p that people are famous going, what are they famous for, for being stupid on tv?… Read More
I want to preserve what, what they did for me. I’m giving back to them. And that that’s a unique, and, and Jane walked the talk, you know, you could disagree with her, but nobody, she could have taken money for herself. She never did anything like that. She, she… Read More
I think it’s, I hope so, but I think it’s unlikely. But I don’t think people commit to all the dedication and, and sacrifice that you have to make early on. I think people get too tempted with other things. And it was, it was a different world back then. Read More