I said, it’s a stuffed animal. And I told her this story. So the whole weekend I like, oh man, I gotta go into the director Monday and come clean. I gotta tell him this story. And I went in there and I told him and he laughed. He goes,… Read More
And the soft doesn’t move much anyway. Right?… Read More
And I told my wife and she goes, oh wow, that looks great. Read More
I said, it’s not real. She said, what?… Read More
I remember being down in education this past week and somebody had a real life size looking stuffed animal of a sloth. Read More
I said, tongue in cheek. So sure enough, my wife and I come up to the opening of the exhibit and there’s the director and his wife and you know, I’m director of collections at that point. And he says, Hey, exhibit looks great. And man, that sloth is really… Read More
Why don’t you get that and put it in the exhibit?… Read More
He says, the guys can’t get the temperature right and the humidity’s too low on this and that. And kept going on and on. I said, you know what, if it’s not right, don’t put ’em on. Don’t worry about it. Most people wouldn’t notice it anyway, don’t worry about… Read More
So this sloth, if I may, we had a sloth and it was gonna go on a certain part of the exhibit and we were having a hard time adjusting the humidity and temperature because it was open to the gallery. The windows only came up partially and we just… Read More
I said, it’s okay, it’s okay. And I said, you know what?… Read More
How the heck do you live if the water comes up into the forest and goes for miles into the forest?… Read More
How do you live in that environment?… Read More
But the cool thing was being able to show so many different terrestrial animals that you wouldn’t expect to see it in aquarium. For sure. And I remember some of the classics were, we had bullet ants, a good story about a sloth I’ll share with you. But it was… Read More
Why is this trend popular? What’s the point?… Read More
Yes. And birds. Why has this happened?… Read More
I think you identified it. It’s a trend that those of us that have dealt with the animal collections realize that, you know, these fish don’t live in a vacuum. There’s other animals, terrestrial or aquatic that we’re not showing. And maybe we need to enlarge the exhibit and create… Read More
So he is like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I’d seen killer whales, certainly at SeaWorld and other places. But seeing them in that, that numerous, that, that many was just fantastic. And in the wild, the Robson bite area by the way, is they was observed that the whales… Read More
If you’re a seal or sea lion, would you be hanging around this area with all these killer whales here?… Read More
I had a photographer come up to me and goes, are we gonna see anything besides killer whales?… Read More
I said, well, that was the intent of the trip, but also consider they’re a top predator. Read More