And that’s one way to get across. There’s gonna be a certain, you know, there needs to be studies done of this, you know, zoo visitors. And I know there have been studies done on this, you know, a lot of stuff. Read More
As director you I’m sure have touched on it, what would you say are the keys to maintaining visitors attention?… Read More
Yeah, I just a few, I mean, if you just wanna work with animals, being a zookeeper is a respectable profession and, and you’re going to learn a lot of things in the school of hard knocks. They’re not gonna be able to teach you everything stuff’s gonna happen that… Read More
Well, engagement is one of them. I think engagement, personal engagement with another per another individual, a spokesperson for the zoo or a spec specialist that knows that species and can tell you what’s going on. I think that is a, that’s a key way of getting the message across… Read More
Would you recommend Azure and aquarium field to a young person with a sincere interest?… Read More
Yeah, sure. Conservation and wildlife?… Read More
Why didn’t it, why didn’t it disappear several millennia ago?… Read More
But it’s highly specialized social insect feeder and in the right place, it does quite well. And to me, one of the great wonders of nature is just the diversity of life forms that’s out there. And things like aardvarks or star nose, moles, elephants, everything else has its own… Read More
But if you’re educated and you see an aardvark for the first time in captivity, you wonder where the hell did this come from?… Read More
And why, why would an animal that looks this ridiculous be still living on planet earth?… Read More
And, but I just hope that, that a concerted effort is made by those who have the wherewithal to do, to take the right steps. We think animals need to earn their keep in a zoo. No, I know directors feel that if it’s not an interesting species, you shouldn’t… Read More
I don’t think it has to be a problem. I think if you concentrate on your priorities and do a good job about them, gonna do a good job of it. You don’t have worry about increasing space. You know, we, we get into this idea that growth is good… Read More
You were front of oil with thousands of acres, but does space continued to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
That’s my view. It may be a bit pessimistic, but Do you think, does, does space continue to be a problem?… Read More
And even now when they’re releasing them in the field, we really don’t know exactly how ferret numbers in the wild have to be geared to population size of prairie dog populations in order for ferrets to continue to thrive and reproduce. And as long as you have different agencies… Read More
But I know that if you look at black-footed ferrets, yes, the reintroduction has taken place, but will they still be around 25 years from now?… Read More
How successful do you think zoos and crams have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
Well, Scott and I wrote a paper that kind of summarized the literature on this for AZA many years ago. And I’m sure there have been all kinds of things that have happened. Maybe, maybe the number of cases now is double what we had compiled, but it was, it… Read More
Well, Larry dealt with that for the mammals and he had a set of relationships and we got animals in to keep the genetic lines separate and we shipped animals out to other institutions. Devra was working with the GLTs (golden lion tamarins) and she, that was all worked out… Read More
Like if Mitch’s video where he tells a story about, about not knowing the dosages of the drugs that you had to use in those days and sometimes you overdose and you lost an animal. You know, it’s one thing that’s occurred to me over time is that people who… Read More