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
That’s Senator Inhofe, by the way, from Oklahoma. We need to have, just an excellent exhibit of those, which maybe a, maybe a pentagon shaped thing or something. Anyway, get a designer to really come up with a good design. Then these are placed in every zoo, every museum in… Read More
A little more. A little more, 150 maybe, okay. They need to make 150 of each of these exhibits. It’s one exhibit, but they’re gonna explain about those five factors. And they’re gonna do it in such a way with push button, with video, that kids and adults will not… Read More
And they would do it at the national, wherever the exhibits are put together. They’d have to be a committee working to, this is what we’ll put on it. There’ll be a lot of, there’s a lot of opposition. The senator, the worst senator in the country right now, we… Read More
This is what science is all about, prediction. You know, if you put that that switch up, the light will come on, that’s scientific, cause and effect. He led this. And the models that they got back after that were terrible. Well, the zoos and the world were just gonna… Read More
We’re gonna solve this problem or that problem of a zoo. There won’t be any wild animals out there to speak of. And so I think what we need to do, we need to do this on a national level, and I’m very interested in your response. I think we… Read More
How many zoos are there in the United States today that are reasonably valid zoos, 50, 100?… Read More
14 years at Fort Worth, two years at Portland, and 16 years at Oklahoma. We never had a problem after that. Read More
Very easy, a good question. And I think it has an easy answer. Today, the biggest problem facing you and I, and our families, and zoos is, I would say five problems. Now, about 30 years ago when computers were really (indistinct) there was an organization called The Club of… Read More
What issues would you like to see the National Zoo Organization addressing now?… Read More
And you need to get it signed by both his parents, his guardian, whoever is his legal guardian. Read More
Notarized. Notary. notorious public. He needs to, you need to get that on there. I mean, it needs to be absolutely legal. You don’t want any holes in it, because there’s people like me out there in law, and we’ll look for those holes, but I’ll fix you one that… Read More
You need to get it. What is it?… Read More
And what we did was start a junior curator program. We did this at Fort Worth, we did it at Portland. Big deal in Portland. And we did it in Oklahoma City. And it worked. And we had, when we started out, we had about six of them. And I… Read More
They would go through the routine was they would spend Saturday morning in class listening to zoo people give talks on the zoo, on our zoo, zookeeper. Or we had a visiting zoo professor, zoo director. If you’d come down we would’ve had you to give a talk to them. Read More
So I stopped one of them. I said, “You know, I’m from Galveston and I’m interested in herpetology.” “Oh, well you need to talk to so-and-so, Bill Millstadt, he’s our curator, junior curator of herpetology.” So they took me to Bill Millstadt, who’s became quite an active herpetologist in his… Read More
How can zoos improve their connection with kids and teenagers to heighten their zeal and awareness about the natural world?… Read More
Well, I can tell you what worked for me at three different zoos, but I have to go back. I was about 18 in Galveston, Texas. There weren’t any zoos in Galveston. And I went to the Houston Zoo. And right in the middle of the Houston Zoo was a… Read More
Well, I mean, I don’t want to answer it with a simpleton, a simplistic thing. But the purpose of zoos is to be visited, to be educated there. You have to use the zoo, usage is the big thing. Attendance figures may be part of the, well when I worked… Read More
And I think zoos need to be very sensitive and do whatever they can within discreetness, within the realm of, that we’ve all pretty well agreed on of what a zoo should do and what it should be. They need to work on that, and make sure it gets across… Read More