Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 583
Have you ever seen it?… Read More
Have you ever seen it?… Read More
And what zoos offer is the real thing. If they can touch it, that’s good. I think we need to have as many touchies and feelies, and as many educational things, where the animal does something on its own that it’s specific or significant to its behavior. I really like… Read More
And those archer fish would just spend 20, 30 minutes shooting it down. People were spellbound. I was the first time I saw it. Read More
I think the biggest problem facing US zoos today is we’re running out of wild animals. I mean, today we’ve got, you’ve got a coyote over there, our coydog. But the the wild creature, the space is just, they’re just doomed, they’re doomed. Maybe it’ll take 100 years. Tigers are… Read More
And what can we do to correct the problem in your opinion?… Read More
We’re gonna be preserving them. We’re gonna be preserving a small population of them, scattered around the world, and that’s gonna be there. And people will enjoy it. I think there is, you know, one thing that’s happened in the last 20 years, this amount of natural history photography, it’s… Read More
So when you finally left, they gave you your passport back?… Read More
What is the largest professional problem facing US zoos today?… Read More
Oh, yes, yes they did. I couldn’t have left without it. Okay. What is the large, this is more of your opinion. Read More
Yeah, I wanted, this was in ’97. And I decided I really wanted to do my thing in the States now. And I’d done the museum, and I’d done the zoo. During the Desert Storm, I went up and helped with the evacuation in Kuwait city of the British Embassy. Read More
Oh, and Lawrence, you like wine, don’t you?” And Black label. And I mean, it was, I don’t know what it cost, but a lot. Read More
That’s the source of… The Indian trade minister at the Indian Embassy was the king of the bootleggers. And when I was at the zoo, it was like Christmas, he would drive into my, I had this big high wall around my villa and my bosses would be there. And… Read More
And then from there you made a decision to leave Saudi Arabia?… Read More
Here’s a picture of him and I with, at the zoo.” So I have a picture of the governor, six years later on this. And it was, I enjoyed it very much. And it was, the public ate it up. Well, we set telescopes out, they were hungry. So you… Read More
The lawyer for the agency, and some other guy, a bean counter, and me. And the rest of the place was empty. Somehow it didn’t go over. And Prince Diana had been there, and spent the night there with, what’s his name, Prince Charles. But then they closed, they just… Read More
I do it frequently, frequently. For anything or do you specialize in something that they- All kinds of weird things. And the prince, also, on the science museum… By the way, it was opened, and I told you that the king’s son, his oldest son opened the zoo. Prince, the… Read More
Now, you still consult for the Zoom?… Read More
We opened the Science Oasis. Oh, and I had some, an animal area. And I would, I’d put Saudi animals in there, had the vipers. There’s some beautiful animals. Beautiful lizards there, blue (indistinct). Anyway, oh, and a big deal was in the summer, or in the, yeah, in the… Read More
I took my wife there the first time. Within two days, the water is just teeming with shrimp. Looks like a king crab, like a horseshoe crab. They’re little, and those are desert shrimp. And I had a perpetual exhibit of those. We would get the eggs and hatch them… Read More
One was for one year, two year, and then 20 years. All 20 jars with eggs in. They’re on a shelf still in Riyadh. But they’re aging, they’re aging. Lived in a, what they called the Tuwaiq Palace, which was a hotel, combination hotel and conference center. And guest place… Read More