Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 147
So I, I went into the stall and it simple thing, right?… Read More
So I, I went into the stall and it simple thing, right?… Read More
You have an immobilized it, given it a chemical, it’s gotta come up from, or the vet has to give it antagonist to bring it back up. That’s much harder to me on the animal system. And it’s much safer just to grab it, get the blood done, and you’re… Read More
Well, he needs to draw blood, he needs to take some samples, and he is gonna do a fecal sample. And I said, so why are we, IM immobilizing the animals to do that. Well, it’s dangerous. And it’s like, it’s an eight x, it weighs 120 pounds. And it’s,… Read More
Oh, well, we’re gonna have the vets come in and they’re going to immobilize it and they we’re gonna do this. Read More
I said, well, what, what’s the vet gonna do?… Read More
And I went out to the staff and the manager, I said, okay, what’s the plan here?… Read More
And I think I mentioned earlier that we as mentors probably didn’t do our job the way we should have because if we were doing that, we would get them trained to the point where they weren’t afraid of the animals. They would respect them, what their capabilities were, but… Read More
Do you, do you have a degree in nutrition?… Read More
Well, no, but you know, we studied it and it’s like, you know, a little bit of knowledge could be a dangerous thing. And so we had that group and, and then the group that I really began to hire, I, I would get some people, ’cause Florida was a… Read More
You spoke a little facing early career keepers or curators To two curators or No, just early career people who are zookeepers or early career people who start this tour. Well, I’ll tell you what I’ve seen. When I, when I hired at Miami and I started hiring people in… Read More
You’re physically gonna be challenged because it’s hard work. You’re gonna be raking and cleaning. Yeah, you’re gonna be handling animals and stuff. And they go, well, yeah, but you know, I wanna create diets and I wanna do this. And it’s like, well, hold on. Read More
Tom Mehan, our, my bed at, at Brookfield Zoo did a whole thing on animals, diet zoos. And, and if you really didn’t think they died, then you didn’t think Lassie passed away. But yeah, Lassie kept showing up on TV shows long after the life expectancy of a colic. Read More
You’re talking about things in, in an early career, what would you say are the biggest challenges?… Read More
And it’s still an issue today, unfortunately. Well, bringing this up, so the next que how should zoos be dealing with the deaths of animals, especially charismatic animals with their staffs and the public Honesty is your answer. Stop trying to hide things. Animals in the wild pass away, animals… Read More
But animals pass away. And the idea that you’re not honest about it, I think got us in trouble in the eyes of a lot of people. And it made animal support groups, or some people call ’em extremists, say, you’re hiding things. And it’s like, you can’t be put… Read More
And, and of course there was a real big stigma about anybody that worked with a ranch because of an organization called Game Coin. I dunno if you remember them. And they would import hoofstock, which is how San Antonio got their big hoofstock collection with the idea that the… Read More
Well, the, you know, it, it was nice, but they kind of looked at us and said, okay, but you want us to take all the males?… Read More
What’s that gonna do for us?… Read More
So we went around and looked at ranches that supposedly weren’t, that said, you’ve got the space, can you take surplus?… Read More
Because we were afraid of the game ranches that were the hunt ranches, you know?… Read More