Mobile, mobile clinics. And I went to ’em and said, listen, I’m looking for a van that I can transport animals with. ’cause I want to go to school. So when I go to a school, I don’t wanna go in for 10 minutes with one classroom. I want to… Read More
Well, we did our, our appraisal, the porcupines have been producing kids and they’re, they go out in front of the public all the time. The benter wrong the same way. It’s like ambassador programs did not necessarily mean it’s bad welfare, it’s how you manage it. But they had… Read More
I don’t know what they have. I went to a, a company over in Missouri that built vans for veterinarians, right?… Read More
And that’s what they knew. And it’s like, and can you breed ambassador animals?… Read More
It was gonna be an answer ambassador program. Read More
Is this really true? And so we started doing the studies and, and convinced other zoos to do the same thing. Read More
Did it really impact an animal that had been hand raised?… Read More
The other thing too is I, when I came on back on board, I asked about their ambassador program. Oh, well, you know, we have Guinea pigs and hamsters and we’ve got parakeet. And I went, no, no, that’s all right. And so I got with the, the local architectural… Read More
If I go to a zoo and see everything I saw at the other zoo, you know, why, why am I doing that?… Read More
And I said, I, I don’t wanna see a hamster or a Guinea pig. We have that over in the Children’s zoo and that’s nice. I want animals that people want to get close to. Because when you read the surveys, they go, you know, that big exhibit’s nice, but… Read More
And I went, my God, I used to breed fishers all the time. And it’s a cool active animal. Is it a huge animal? No. ’cause I like jewel box exhibits. I pe that’s, you know, aquariums and things like that. And I said, let’s look at gents. I couldn’t… Read More
It took me a long time to find genes. I had to go to a private breeder to find genes. And so it’s things like that that I think we lost that I would love to see come back. Diversity of life. And it’s, it’s challenge ’cause of space and… Read More
But out in the exhibit, I wanna see flocks, I wanna see something I’d see in the wild. And we just had moved away from that. Read More
And I, I brought in stuff like I, I, I wanted to bring in fishers and people looked at me and go, what’s that?… Read More
That’s a space factor. We’ve talked about that. When I got to Brookfield, and I don’t mind saying it because I said it there, every time I talked about bringing a new species in, they’d say, oh, well let’s go back and see what’s in SSP. And I would go,… Read More
You know, they’re not pets and these are dangerous animals and that we manage how we manage in order to maintain the species and not the specimen. I keep going back to that ’cause I think it’s critical for the long term survival of zoos. When you look at zoo… Read More
What, what, what do you think is the one mis one misconception about zoo work that you wish the public understood?… Read More
And that what we do as a zoo or an aquarium and, and exhibiting animals for the public as well as the management research we do, is good enough to sustain us and not worry about trying to be everything for everybody. Because it dilutes your budget, it dilutes the… Read More
And they, Gary’s starting to really manage that program, whereas the state just wanted to keep just three populations and isolate ’em and not save the others by supplementing those small populations genetically. So in harvesting, interesting story. Talk about what innovations you might, you would hope institutions would adopt. Read More
What would you change about the profession if you had unlimited influence?… Read More