Anyway, that would just be a one form of adaptation. Another one might be reproduction. They just lay zillions of eggs. Go on down the line. feeding, adaptations. Behavioral adaptations, you could select maybe 15 or 20 different adaptation, adaptive modes, and set up a living exhibit showing those. Read More
Well my friend, Dolan, who you were talking about a while ago, couldn’t find, but was one short. And he insisted that it was wrong. And when he went back and talked to the aquarius, the aquarius said, “Oh yeah, we took a dead one out about a week ago. Read More
The second one, the second one is an exhibit. Actually, the same thing, I would envision, the same thing should be done in plants, the plant kingdom. Plants are, you know, just as important as animal life. And although the zoo is zoological, we all know that horticulture is what… Read More
They look just like a dead leaf fish. They move like a dead leaf floating in the water. And the exhibit I had said, there are, and we’d change it frequently when one died, there are so many dead leaf fish in this exhibit. Read More
Can you find them?… Read More
Have you seen such an exhibit?… Read More
What’s the second one?… Read More
Well, you could probably stick one of those things up somebody’s button, and take movies of it and then show the push button thing. A lot of ways of doing these things. Now, this would be different. I’ve never seen that. It may exist. Read More
What’s the common biological characteristics, plural, that they have in common?… Read More
You know, like a tape worm. How do you show a tape?… Read More
I envision now, that’s just one class of animals. So taxonomically, we’ve got X number of fila that we, you know, without just a few species in it, but significant conspicuous fila, with conspicuous classes. Each would be an exhibit, so that a person could go in that building, and… Read More
Well, we got snakes, and we got lizards, and crocodilians and turtles and tuataras, okay. Read More
What’s their commonality?… Read More
Can you give me a couple of examples?… Read More
And you know, taxonomy can be boring, but if you’ve got a reptile, you know, what are the reptiles, and how do we distinguish them?… Read More
There are two exhibits I would love to build. Well, more than two. But one of them is what I would call the Animal Kingdom House. Read More
In the zoos that you’ve run, are there programs or exhibits that you would’ve liked to have implemented during your tenure, that did not happen?… Read More
Yes. Read More
And there are those masses all over the place. They didn’t just happen. They’ve been building. That’s terrible. Read More
I didn’t know about it until I read this article. And we need to keep, these exhibits need to be current, but they need to be very carefully done. The Bronx Zoo did a fantastic job with their gorilla deal. And they had a computer thing where people could donate… Read More