Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 86
He was always asking, when are you gonna get baby camels?… Read More
He was always asking, when are you gonna get baby camels?… Read More
So he had now moved on and he was up at Syracuse University at the time. But yeah, so Ted was very anxious. Read More
The Hoofstock capers used to come over and ask for my help when they had a problem with Hoofstock. And I’d go over and help ’em, and I, it kind of fed my interest in Hoofstock. So I started reading extensively about deer and antelopes. And then when I was… Read More
And that was when we had that great fiasco with the bact camels. Jim Murtaugh, who is a keeper then. And I filmed the running behavior of the bact and camels, which is quite a scene to see. They have a occipital gland on the back of their head that… Read More
What would you say was if there was one of the more unusual species you were able to bring to Front Royal?… Read More
Well, from the standpoint of conservation importance, I would say those Hawaiian birds, the Guam rails, Bali Minas were important ones from, in terms of my personal interest, I found the ONGs very interesting. And we bred them and we wrote some papers about their biology. One of our interns… Read More
I was associate director of conservation. They had an associate director of education, I think that was Dave Jan, Dave Jenkins came in. So that’s how it worked in those days. So I became, I was had a higher, I got a higher grade when that happened. And, but it… Read More
They can consult with them, but they were answering to me. And then we started having staff meetings. We started to act, operate as a, a coordinated and unified office of the zoo rather than a divided office that answered to different parts of the zoo. But yet in 1985,… Read More
Was is the curator in charge? Yeah, That was a progression. I was still there. And at first the different operations, maintenance, budget and collections were all managed out of dc. So I answered to the, to Jaron Horsley and Mary McComas answered to the budget chief at the, at… Read More
He said, we’re getting there. He says, but you know what?… Read More
It’s best for Deb’s I to stay in the, in the city. He realized that the work at CRC was not gonna be much research ’cause there wasn’t much of a collection there. And he said, but we’re gonna need a supervisory mamm to oversee the mammal collection to get… Read More
And we went to the old commanding officer’s house, which is the one that Horseley said, that’s the one to take it. It’s the best house. And we moved in, that was one with Foster Dulles’s carpet. And we moved in there and Shirley was very depressed. The walls were… Read More
So I called him up and he said, it’s, he said, it’s making way. Read More
So they had a big collection there in the zoo. And he wanted me to come and oversee that. He said, I want you to think about it. I said, John, I don’t have to think about it. I’ll tell you right now, I’m interested in it. He said, no,… Read More
Yeah. New responsibilities. Yeah. The way that happened was the zoo had just acquired, or was about to acquire CRC, the Remount station in front Royal. And John Eisenberg called me up, I remember the call while I was in the kitchen of the small mammal house at Brookfield. And… Read More
You returner, right?… Read More
But ultimately in 1974, you lead Brookfield Zoo, right?… Read More
To do a full-time job. Yeah. Read More
As supervisor, supervisory mam at the National Zoo, right?… Read More
Not, not yet. There was much more to see before I started. I, that started when I went to Brookfield. So we’ve talked about your time at Brookfield. Yeah. Read More