Well, Clint was getting close to retirement age, and then there was some rearrangement, I guess, we should say, in the administrative structure of the National Zoo, where some people up above weren’t happy with, I feel, or Ted Reed was doing or wanted new direction in the zoo. And… Read More
Or did the Smithsonian say it’s okay to do it or … Yeah, we did a lot of traveling, Dave Wilt and I, when, I met Dave Wilt, ’cause I was interested in laparoscopy. Tell us who Dave Wilt is, just to — Tell us who Dave Wilt is, just… Read More
So I met Dave Wilt when I went up to Steve Seger’s place who was doing some, a veterinarian doing work in reproductive physiology, and Dave Wilt worked for him, and Dave and I just kind of hit it off. We started doing laparoscopy together, and then basically we looked… Read More
So we got access to breeder cheetahs and characterized that, and of course, as a sidelight, we collected some information for the geneticist, Steve O’Brien, who found the monomorphic populations that cheetahs were basically inbred, then that started us off on another direction. But then we also did some traveling,… Read More
Now were you, when you were in your position working with Clint Gray, did you consult with other zoos also?… Read More
or “Can you look at this?” I mean, did you have, were you able to travel to other places?… Read More
I mean, as I said earlier, I think I’m a generalist, and there’s a lot of information out there that people have, and I wanted to try to get as much of it as I could. But I mean, were they calling you, and saying — oh absolutely. Read More
So there was some nice work being done with the pathology department there. Read More
Was it a pathologist there before you got there?… Read More
Yes — one of the few. in the United States. Lynn Griner at San Diego was one of the few, there was a, I think Snyder at … Pennsylvania … And Philadelphia, I think his name was Snyder, was doing some pathology. I’m not sure of his name, but I… Read More
Was that the gentleman we were talking about?… Read More
Short-statured. was that — I don’t know. He was — I just went down for information, ’cause I traveled around to talk to John, people that had giant pandas, and I wanted to see what Mexico’s doing, and I also went to Regents Park and met with John Knight. They… Read More
Why was a pathologist hired?… Read More
No, that was Maria Elena. Read More
Who is — was that the Director at the Mexico Zoo?… Read More
S-C-H-O-C-H. Read More
And then I think we can probably keep the animal alive for a while, but you know, we’re not gonna probably cure it, but you know, we can keep the animal comfortable.” So I felt pretty good, you know, telling him that, and then Dick was waiting for us, we… Read More
What role did Jean Schoch play?… Read More
Jean who?… Read More
The giant pandas in Mexico, one time I flew down there to help them with a baby that had just been born. They had one born, and by the time I got there, it died. And so I had to do the autopsy on the giant panda cub. Next time… Read More