Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 105
Can you believe that this bird is eating?… Read More
Can you believe that this bird is eating?… Read More
And somehow he had this network of people that were Purple Martin fans. And somehow he made connection with somebody who had found a pure white purple Martin that had fallen out of the Martin House and had taken it to the zoo. And so they hand reared this purple… Read More
I I remember, I I re reacted to it with humor because I found it highly amusing. He was so upset. I can’t believe it, can’t believe this. Read More
All he does, he spends his time in the field, but why does, what does this have to do with zoo work?… Read More
So John got highly offended by that, you know, questioning the direction of Jane’s research. So John said, Jane, you better sign up for being curator. So Jane went and talked with Ted, he said, I wanna try my hand at curation. So Gene became the curator at the zoo. Read More
And John got his nose out of joint about that. They weren’t for drinks one night, one Friday night. And that happened, and John got his nose out of joint about that. And so then John would go on the offensive and there was this kerfuffle that was taking place… Read More
And John told Jeanie, he said, gene, he said, and John had asked, or Ted had asked John, he says, well, what’s going on with Morton?… Read More
What is he doing for the zoo?… Read More
Well, gene was, gene was an ornithologist, got his PhD at Yale and wrote some real seminal papers from his PhD work on propagation of different frequencies of bird song through different habitats. And he showed that the frequency of the song was geared to the kind of floral density… Read More
And, but one of the problems, as John Eisenberg and Ted started to go around, John bought Deborah on the staff and Ted asked John, when are you gonna make her an honorable woman?… Read More
It was a gentleman named Gene Morton. Read More
What was his relationship?… Read More
It had to be helicoptered up to the city from Tennessee or Kentucky, someplace, I think it was maybe Tennessee. And he was administered, he went to the hospital, of course, and he got the, and he survived. And then about a week after that, Nancy Reagan wrote a letter… Read More
Was there something with someone bitten by a snake?… Read More
Yeah, the first, the, my first night at the National Zoo, I was sleeping in a stockroom that the friends of the National Zoo used, and somebody knocked on the door brown after midnight. And the zoo police woman came in and told me that a boy had stolen a… Read More
And when this news came out, the a ZA found out about it. And so Ted Reed got the Zoo Goof of the Year award that year, and he was a good sport. He, he played the clown, you know, played the fool along with the whole story and got… Read More
Anybody recognizes them when you see it in the zoo. And this guy would just, he, he had 30 acres of paddock to wander around and he spent all of his time making a figure eight in front of the gate to the barn, Ollie, that was Ollie. And he… Read More
There’s no baby camels. How long is it gonna take?… Read More
I said, well, they, they’re sewing, running behavior. I said, they’re fighting and we’ve seen him mounting and they, they never had any calves. And so finally Mitch Bush came out and I think he knocked Humphrey down and he was a kryp orchid male. The testes were, had never… Read More
And then they flap the tail on the rear towards the rear hump hump. So they’ve got one scent on the front end, and they have another scent on the back end. And then they go around, they have this bladder in the base of the tongue, which they fill… Read More