The reality is this animal killed several individuals, the tillicum, the major whale in the documentary. And you know, people have come up with many reasons. It’s, you know, it’s a large male, it’s naturally aggressive. It happens to be an aggressive animal. The, the space it was kept in… Read More
An aquarium in that you have marine mammals. Yeah, you may have an oceanarium component or even maybe a zoo that has marine mammals. Read More
And we try to always work together whenever we have say a controversial issue such that, you know, we would talk with SeaWorld people and ask them, you know, what messaging are you getting out?… Read More
What are you, how are you addressing this?… Read More
Yeah, Blackfish was, boy, it’s a tough documentary to watch. It had to do with killer whales. It’s specifically SeaWorld. Read More
Well, they do try to monitor them. They’ll put a transmitter on which lasts for X number of months before the battery dies. But when they become too large, you have to put ’em back in the wild and they’ll go to the place from which the animal is collected… Read More
What it effect did that have within the aquarium profession?… Read More
And when they brought in smaller great white sharks, he would bring them into the exhibit and they would have this constant swimming pattern, which was good until, the way I heard it. I’m not sure if this is the actual reason they got rid of the great white sharks,… Read More
The Monterey Aquarium has done a good job with smaller tuna. They do get to the point that they become problematic and that they may become predatory on smaller animals sometimes. And the interesting way that Monterey alleviated this, they had animals, they fast swim and boom, they smack into… Read More
And again, to your question of like, how do they do?… Read More
Have there not been exhibits that have been circular that allow tuna to keep fish, keep swimming There?… Read More
You talked about tup. Read More
Of course, if we were to try to bring in blue fin tuna, it would be impossible. It’s a fast swimming open ocean fish, they don’t know the confines of an exhibit. There have been attempts to bring in smaller species of tuna that often would ram into the walls… Read More
Some animals are very specific as far as what, what they want to eat. Qua bears, for instance, when we had the project seahorse collection, our special exhibit, I remember many of our aquarium colleagues saying, oh, good luck with that. We can feed ’em nothing but Brian Shrimp. ’cause… Read More
It’s, it was always interesting working with politicians because when they would have a summer break or whatever and we’d invite them down to the aquaquarium to see what we’re doing, many times they’d come down with a number of their staff members, you know, young individuals coming up in… Read More
Because we wanna educate our public about where these animals live and what are the threats to their continued existence or to their habitat type of thing. Again, the record keeping that has been generated through a ZA animal record keeping systems, pretty sophisticated conservation breeding programs. There’s all these… Read More
It’s grown to the point that not only is the natural history important, but certainly the environment from which the animals come and how do we best represent that?… Read More
Yes, tremendously. The sophistication of the job, I think is grown by leaps and bounds. Back in the day. It was important to get to know the animals, of course, know their taxonomy, you know, do a decent job of exhibiting them. I don’t think there was a tremendous amount… Read More
So Do you feel that the role of the curator has changed from when you started?… Read More
It’s like, well it’s, you know, part of our special exhibits we’re highlighting this animal group and we’d like you to get more familiar with them. The, the, the bottom line is once the exhibit came down, and it was usually two years, was the run that we would allocate. Read More