Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 465
And how do you see the future regarding these concerns?… Read More
And how do you see the future regarding these concerns?… Read More
And we can fill that niche, as long as we’re giving ’em a quality experience. And so those are the shifts I’ve seen. We kind of went from a nature base away from it, now, kind of back to that and then that ability to be more engaged in what… Read More
And it’s very difficult. Don’t have an answer for that. But we have seen a shift. And whether it’s driven by, you know, your cell phones, and all the games that are played, and they want all of this action, and they wanna be part of it. I think that… Read More
How do you get to 2 million people a year that come through your gate with that kind of intensity?… Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes at the national level?… Read More
Yeah, I think, again, it’s their desire to A, to wanna know more about how we do what we do, but also to have that, as I was talking about earlier, that ability to get closer to some of these animals, but in a respectful way. I think that’s what’s… Read More
And I said well, I learned it at the wild animal park from a guy who knew a hell of a lot more about Indian rhinos than I did. And we were in 40 acres where we had as much room as you could possibly want, but no control. We… Read More
Long-term, this is not going to be good. Because when it comes to permits or imports or exports, whatever, they’re fearful of this. I mean, I can remember when I was still active, I said if you wanna learn how to do this, call me. See me at a conference,… Read More
‘Cause we haven’t recruited enough species, new genetic material, whether that be from Europe or whether that be from the wild, whatever it may be. And we’re not on the radar anymore. It’s just not happening. I don’t think there’s been a mammal import, I might be off a few… Read More
Today, Mark, it’s like, hey, Larry. Yeah. Oh, we forgot to tell you, they bred three days ago. So on autopilot, they know what to do. And it was just holding that hand, getting through that. But they intrinsically knew what to do. They just didn’t know how to get… Read More
And, you know, one of ’em said to me, well, how did you learn this?… Read More
By the way, that female’s still at the zoo today. Second time this happened, said to the staff, okay, ready to breed ’em again. Well, not as nervous as I was before, but I’m a little nervous. I said okay, I’ll tell you what, next time she comes into heat,… Read More
I said yeah, it is a scary thing. These are big animals, you know, and they put up quite a ruckus. Now, we also closed off that portion of the zoo when we were doing it. It happened at the end of the day. So that was some advantage to… Read More
And I’ll cite a story about that in a minute here. And I think that the industry, for some reason, this has happened over time. And there’s less and less curators that know their craft well. I mean, they just don’t, they just happen to be the head of the… Read More
And the staff shuddered with fear at putting ’em together. All kinds of cues. The exhibit’s too small, this is not right, that’s not right. The exhibit’s not the issue. And we’ll look at the perimeter and we’ll fortify that, but we’re gonna put ’em together because that’s what we… Read More
So a long story short, I said, we’re gonna put ’em together when the female comes into heat. And the staff’s like, we’ve never done this before. I said okay, I’ll be there with you. We’ll do it. Put ’em together. Four hours later, had mounting and breeding and said… Read More
I think that’s extremely important. Read More
If you’re gonna be a curator and you’re going to be directing keepers and other staff to take care of an animal, if you haven’t taken care of it, how can you possibly do that with any kind of accuracy or reliability?… Read More
I think it’s a hundred percent accurate. And I think my generation did not do their job. We did not mentor enough curators in the industry. And so there’s a void now, and there’s people that are title curators that I don’t know, in my estimation, if they really understand… Read More
And how should curators be trained today to do what you feel should be expected of it?… Read More