Yeah. Well, I think during the nineties or the, was the eighties, I think it actually started maybe in the late seventies, was the awareness of the problems of poor management of captive populations and the growing awareness that this can lead to inbreeding and all kinds of other problems. Read More
What do you think is the biggest change in the zoo profession that you’ve seen?… Read More
And it was just this kind of comical zoo situation that I found, found the highly amusing. And I always laughed in those situations. You know, I, I couldn’t get too serious about it. Nobody got hurt. Read More
The biggest change in my lifetime? In the zoo profession?… Read More
But finally I said, George, I said, the problem is over. Now we, we, we took care of that problem. We solved the problem. But I, but I said, you have to admit that it’s funny. I said, nobody got hurt. These guys, they barely spoke English and they kept… Read More
They didn’t know what was happening. You know?… Read More
Well, and the bears could open it. And so these guys were in there welding, and I knew they were welding. Jimmy was keeping an eye on him. Jim Jimmy, Jimmy Rowell, and Jimmy came to me and he said, Chris, we got a problem in here. He said, the… Read More
It was right next to him, to him. And they were taking the tools they had on the ground and taking ’em out into the grotto and dropping them into the moat. So they had lost like half of the tools they had there to the sloth bears and the… Read More
And I was laughing and that was making George even more mad, you know?… Read More
I just pulled away and he let go. And that was it. And that’s the only time I did that. And I didn’t tell anybody about it. I didn’t tell George, George would’ve been very upset. But we had other experiences too, that George would get upset about. And one… Read More
And I thought, you know what? I got boots on and they, they’re over the ankles and everything. I’m gonna see what happens here. And there was a guardrail behind me. So I put my foot up there, one foot, and he grabbed it, and those nails just went right… Read More
And I was checking the exhibits, you know, so I’d come in there and check everything out and it’d be stalking me. And you’d see it kind of peeking at you from behind the log. And then it would go down and then it would show up over there and… Read More
You know? And if I approached the, the wall of the cage closely, he would run up to the front of the cage and he’d reach out at me with one, one forearm, you know?… Read More
And I saw ’em there and I saw that when they came in, I could actually jump onto a camel and get between the humps and take it for a ride. Nobody was around. I would go out to the Barnes myself and we were collecting materials from, I, we… Read More
Did you ever have rhino?… Read More
Well, we had giraffes, We had sable antelope. We didn’t have the giant sable, but we had sable antelope. We never had giraffe. No, we had Wisent, the, we were pretty big, but I think the Bactrian and the male Bactrian, I don’t know, they were probably, maybe they were… Read More
It was like, well, what’s coming in now?… Read More
And he’d tell you, oh, you know, it’s the yellow warblers are coming through now and, and the Indigo buntings are starting to nest. And then he’d, I found some really interesting findings about the Song of the Indigo Buntings. And he’d go on and on and, and it was,… Read More
I mean, that’s what captivity can do to animals. And of course we all knew that captivity could, you know, grossly modify behavior. I mean, Konrad Lorenz knew that. And Heini Hediger knew that. I mean, we all knew that. But this was a demonstration of a, that had an… Read More
And that, that you just felt good afterwards. Read More