Yeah, well, when the hospital closes down, they’re gonna send you the x-ray machine, you know, when it shows up in pieces, you know, those days are all gone now. And so those are significant events in our industry. Read More
In my experience in setting up new animal transaction guidelines, when we went through the period of distraction in Tampa, the only pushback we ever got were from zoos, not the private individuals. They were happy to accept the new policies and procedures, which were more stringent for them than… Read More
Why did we get zoo pushback?… Read More
I would’ve thought that, you know, private rancher, Mr. X, would’ve pushed back on it. Nah, we’re fine, we’ll do it. So, you know, when the truth comes out, when the actual, actual story comes out, sometimes the information is a lot different than what you’re hearing on the headlines. Read More
Yeah. There are bad zoos too. People forget that part of the equation. But the ones that have done it right, put their money in it and have sustainability. Incredible. And I’m glad they are. They don’t have the ability to hold a lot of species, but what they do,… Read More
And you know what?… Read More
And why?… Read More
Are there bad private individual zoos?… Read More
They misdirected criticism of the private sector. Read More
What are the pluses and minuses of this type of ownership?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time that municipal zoos have?… Read More
Yeah, I actually think they’ll survive past us, ’cause we all started from them. People forget that, zoos started from private collections. And thank God there were private collections. And the people with means, I think the only Achilles heel there is if the person of means doesn’t have it… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
If there’s discussions going on, I hope so. I don’t know of any, but I think we need some real creative thinkers, not zoo people, but people outside the zoo world that can help shake the timbers a little bit and get us thinking like that. Read More
How do you get us up there?… Read More
Might be one approach, but are people so distracted by all the other things going on in the world that zoos are way down the list?… Read More
How do you get that higher on the list?… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquariums staying viable and pertinent or relevant in the next 25 years?… Read More
Yeah. Yeah, we touched on this before. I am very concerned. I think we need to get some different thinkers at the table to be asking some of these tough questions. I mean, we don’t need to have the rock hit us in the head to say we’ve got some… Read More
We just brought animals in, and then turned around, and sent some of the money back. And by the way, 350,000 in Swazi world. Oh my gosh, that was like a godsend. They said 350,000, my God, that’s gonna help us out so much. They were thrilled to death with… Read More