I think it’ll be a good place to start. They should have those skills. Now I’m not saying that they shouldn’t have other skills, but a lot of the veterinarians now are looking, wanna be interested in doing zoo work, and you know, the clinical area’s filling up, and I… Read More
I think it is, and by two aspects, you don’t see as many jobs advertised, I kind of just look at jobs historically, because I’m just kind of interested in how many people, but I’d say I look at the AZA job thing periodically, and I see maybe one zoo… Read More
You kind of alluded to something, is the field at this point in time as we speak today getting crowded?… Read More
I looked at that question, I found that very interesting, ’cause I need you to define what is good. I had trouble with that question, since it was the first question. I guess I would say a veterinarian that was successful in their career for a long period of time,… Read More
So develop your basic diagnostic skills, and your surgical skills in small animals, because many of those are applicable, and you just have to modify them, but it creates the way you think about problems, and the way you approach problems, and you have to then apply it to the… Read More
No differences?… Read More
How do you define shock?… Read More
What do you think made you a good veterinarian?… Read More
That’s the classic story of, you know, I think shock is the thing that you say when you have, can’t find another more obvious cause, I think shock is an overused term. I don’t think I’ve ever felt comfortable by saying that animal died of shock. Now an animal that… Read More
Yeah, I lost an orangutan. One of our adult male orangs died on their anesthesia with me, and I did CPR on him for I guess 30 or 40 minutes, and we kept him going until he finally, we lost him. So that was when I … And then I… Read More
I have in my experience, that die of shock. I mean just …… Read More
Have you had animals?… Read More
Did you ever have to work, and have challenges with invertebrates?… Read More
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we’ve had a lot of interesting things, when the national zoo opened their invertebrate house, and working with cuttlefish, and trying to figure out how to deal with those and various other invertebrates, but there you’re basic and basically dealing with environmental management, you’re managing their… Read More
Have you ever had any experiences, where you lost a particular animal that you’ve cared for a long time?… Read More
And why, if so?… Read More
We talked about the veterinarian being a generalist, but is there a particular family or group of animals that you prefer to work with?… Read More
I like the megavertebrates, which are the rhinos, hippos, giraffe, elephants, just because they present such unique challenges. And I generally, I think I like hoofstock, I don’t like primates per se, reptiles and birds, they’re just there. But big cats can be interesting, but I would probably put the… Read More
Yeah, we didn’t have any night staff, so we had quite a few menagerie at our house at a period of time, we had quite a few red pandas that my wife raised, we had some maned wolves that my wife took care of, mutt jacks, Bactrian camel calves, wildebeest… Read More
Would you say zoos today are potentially doing enough to manage their animal collections regarding medical husbandry groups?… Read More