Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 587
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
They’re gonna start looking at growing corn here. Well, that may be habitat loss. And that’s all driven by population growth. So I, it, it’s tough to tell ’em, but again, I just try and be as truthful as I can and say, yeah, we’re all part of the problem. Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
Well, if, if they can’t grow corn here, guess where they’re gonna go?… Read More
What does that mean for the areas where they’re not failing?… Read More
What’s changing with agriculture?… Read More
Where are areas failing in agriculture because of climate change?… Read More
Are they still losing numbers? Why is that happening?… Read More
And you know, I could spend $70 million out in the field doing something, but am I gonna make a big difference when the biggest, and this is controversial to an extent, the biggest roadblock to successful conservation is human population growth. Now I’ve been told that worldwide we’re almost,… Read More
Where are they right now? Are they stable?… Read More
Well, it’s a hard one because sometimes I agree. You know, I, I talked about a while ago, I was talking about, you know, do you need to make huge grandiose exhibits when you can accomplish the same thing, maintain the level of welfare for the species and not spend… Read More
You say what?… Read More
The same is true for our profession. It’s just they’re not taking the time to study the history they wanna get going. I came out, I got my degree, I wanna be a curator. Well, hold on. There’s a learning curve that’s involved. And again, this is where we as… Read More
And I, I don’t know what that is, but I think that’s part of the issue with it. How When a zoo spends, and you kind of touched on when a zoo spends multimillions of dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this… Read More
Why do you think, or what’s your opinion on why people younger curators or animal keepers don’t know who a heine hadger was?… Read More
You and I and our generation, we were book collectors. These gentlemen and women wrote books that told of their history of how they developed things, what their philosophy was. Those are books that are sitting on shelves somewhere where the younger generations aren’t looking for ’em. And you won’t… Read More
And I, I think, I think he actually did a lot, even though a lot of people kind of didn’t want to deal with Jack. And I thought, well, that maybe that’s a mistake, but I don’t know of anyone right now that I would say stands out that could… Read More
I think you see the picture behind me, I’m standing there with who was his face. We, we were in DC at a ceremony and I got what was called a conservation hero of the year. And you know, he promotes su there were a few others out there that… Read More
No, I don’t think we do. Everyone always made fun of Jack Hannah. And, and Jack and I did a number of things together. I was on his show a couple times. He came down to Miami and I’m sure you’re aware of the conversations that took place and people… Read More
Do we have anybody like that now or not?… Read More