Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 395
Why are they protesting?… Read More
Why are they protesting?… Read More
Like, well, no, they just kind of come here on a regular basis and they said, we’re not gonna cover it. We’ve seen this before. And they, it was nice that they contacted us and said, it’s not worth our time to come over there. And the thing that was… Read More
What are you guys gonna do?… Read More
I’m like, well, you know, we just do our regular operations. Read More
It was good, legitimate questions. So I remember one Saturday morning we invited several of their staff in. We sat around a table, we had coffee, orange juice, donuts, and just had a conversation. And it was wonderful, wonderful. We got to see each other’s side. We were able to… Read More
If you’re in town, please come by. We wanna show you how we do things. The, the whole deal about the activism was blown up tremendously in the early years with the press. It got to the point that, I remember one time we got a call from probably the… Read More
And I thought, gosh, if we could only do this all the time, they were very level, very level headed group. There are other individuals that, I remember there was a brother of one of our leading animal activists that was always trying to pick a fight. I mean, literally… Read More
They just wanna know, what are you doing, what are you, what are you bringing in and why are you doing this?… Read More
And it wasn’t so much, you know, how we were doing it or the shape or size of our pools or what we’re feeding the animals. Read More
How do you feel though, that the aquarium can achieve dialogue with animal activists?… Read More
And a lot of people, it’s kind of taken aback. I was not the best spokesperson. I was good, but we had other individuals in some areas that could do a better job. So it depended on what the issue was or what the question was. And a lot of… Read More
That that is a challenge only, I encourage it. Number one, I think that’s in our best interest. There are individuals that don’t want to hear what we have to say or anything you have to say. I say, that’s not right. That’s not true. They, they, there’s no reception… Read More
That’s the common image that the activists always try to, to present. And the, the reality, our, our response is we recognize we’re not the ocean. We’re never gonna be the ocean. But we try to preserve, well preserve, but present a healthy environment to the animal. We give them… Read More
So it’s that all those elements are things that would be presented and it’s often best to those people in a higher level of management. But again, if it’s maybe a specific animal, they might say, well, you know, John over here, he, he really knows about these Australian lung… Read More
It wouldn’t hurt, certainly in all the public relation training we had, we would often identify representative individuals that you could tell in working with the staff. This guy’s a great spokesperson. He’s level-headed. He basically identifies, you know, elements of our mission, you know, education, conservation, whatever. He can… Read More
So do you feel that curators and professional staff need more training to interact with animal rights groups?… Read More
But, you know, you could come across, do you think these animals are comfortable living in this small concrete bathtub?… Read More
We, we need to find other locations. We can’t keep going back to the same place. And so indeed that’s what we did. So through scuba diving, you know, obviously you can see the animals and you realize here’s a good place, here’s a good place. So there is concern… Read More
’cause they’re hard to find. But after a while we said, you know what?… Read More
If you have, you know, Sparky the favorite beagle, you know, everybody’s, oh, I wanna see Sparky. Where’s Sparky? You know, if you see Shamu, you wanna go to the Shamu and sit in their first five rows. So you get splaShedd by Shamu and you can talk about it. Read More