Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 468
Programs that you would’ve wanted to implement during your time at the zoo that didn’t happen for various reasons?… Read More
Programs that you would’ve wanted to implement during your time at the zoo that didn’t happen for various reasons?… Read More
Are there any procedures that …… Read More
Pete’s not gonna get me to testify differently either. Now you’ve talked about you’re reviewing some articles. Read More
I’d love the idea. I’m a firm believer of it, because there’s nothing more magnificent than some kid seeing an elephant. I mean there’s, I’m still amazed every time I drop an elephant and get up close to it, and do something with it, it’s a magnificent species, and I… Read More
To what extent do you continue to be active in the zoological field, medical field, conservation field?… Read More
Well I’m still doing internet consultation with several of my colleagues in Thailand who I’m talking right now. They’ve got a lion they’re talking to me about, and a langer and a few other things. They send me x-rays, blood work, and we talk about it over the phone and… Read More
I think veterinary care made it possible, especially with the worming medication, because of the way I understand it, everybody downplays these sterile exhibits, you know, we’ve seen the matchbox exhibits, well I’ve heard a very interesting explanation for that, that came out of Germany, and some of the places… Read More
Now there, from a management perspective, there’s opinions, but from a veterinarian’s point of view, what is your view regarding zoos maintaining elephants?… Read More
Oh, I don’t know. I think applied clinical research, answering questions that we have in day-to-day stuff, just getting the basic information from doing some, not Nobel Prize winning research, but research that’s important that veterinarians are gonna use and we’re gonna help the animals win. And then teaching, I… Read More
It’s been a long interview, haven’t it?… Read More
With the move to naturalistic exhibits, and keeping animals in more naturalistic groups where possible, did veterinary care help or hinder these changes?… Read More
Now if I could allow you to blow your own horn for a minute, what are some of your most important contributions to the zoo world?… Read More
Probably leaving it. I don’t know, it’s … I think there was some who would disagree with that. I think there’s a lot that would agree with it too. Read More
We spent a lot of time, I started, helped start a department in that, so I guess I have to be an advocate for it. Read More
And could you comment on AI, ET semen sexing, the rank of importance, these things?… Read More
Do you see a realistic role in assisted reproductive technique in maintaining endangered species?… Read More
I think is the most important. We’ve already shown that we can manage the genetic population of black-footed ferrets by frozen semen from some of the original founders that have already died and get offspring from that. We’ve also showed in cheetahs that we’ve been able to get cheetahs in… Read More
I don’t know. Hopefully it continues to be education and entertainment, and conservation up until the ability of the individual zoo, whether as we discussed in a local area, or internationally, depending on their funding interests and staff. Read More
Did you feel it was important, and would continue to be important for research from the veterinary field?… Read More
Oh yes. No doubt. Yep, we still have to push back the frontiers of ignorance. There’s so much we don’t know. And the questions we don’t know are getting harder and harder to solve, because we’ve already solved the easy ones, or many of the easy ones. Read More