I, I think one of the things, one of the areas where we’ve really advanced and where I think we need to continue to advance is in the area of diagnostics. We’ve always, we in zoo medicine have always had a challenge compared to our colleagues work with domestic animals. Read More
Yeah. That, that has been integrating with integrating with the behaviorists and the animal care staff in order to more easily get hands on animals. This took a real, this took a real upward swing when COVD vaccinations became available for zoo animals. And, you know, there was a, there… Read More
How do we deal with, you know, some of these other particular things, cardiovascular disease and gorillas and other great apes. But your problems are of a broader scope and, and involved in, in zoo management. And I think one of the, one of the challenges that we face is… Read More
What issues would you like to see Zeus address in Zoom medicine in the future?… Read More
How do you see the future regarding those issues?… Read More
I think from a, from a medical standpoint, I think one of the things, one of the other changes that has happened is veterinarians have gone from being more or less animal plumbers, which is the, the veterinarians are in their private practice or they’re in the zoo hospital, and… Read More
The veterinarians are, you know, their, their problem isn’t, how do we deal with hoof care and giraffes?… Read More
In your career, what changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding zoo medicine?… Read More
I, I think one of the biggest changes is, well, the, probably the biggest change is a result of the fact that we’ve got more access to animals back not long before I started there, there weren’t very good anesthetics if, if all you had was ether and barbiturates, you… Read More
Well, what changes have you seen, or what issues most caused you concern during your career and those issues?… Read More
What is the, how important is that relationship between the zoo pathologist or the pathologist and the veterinarian?… Read More
I started my training, my formal zoo training. I started at St. Louis. I started working at the St. Louis Zoo in 1970, working in the refreshment stands, trying to get work in the, in the children’s zoo, and then moved into the children’s zoo. And the, the very first… Read More
And before I, while I was still at Lincoln Park Zoo, I actually got together with my predecessor here at Brookfield and came up with the idea of collaborating with the University of Illinois for a formal zoo pathology program. And, and so we started a collaboration among Brookfield Zoo,… Read More
And then immediately he’s like, oh my god, that’s not something that he can survive. I mean, that, that’s not something that, you know, is within our scope to treat. And then as we thought about it a little more, we consulted with some neurosurgeons over there and, and they… Read More
And we, on the morning that we brought him over to the animal section of the medical school for the surgery, we got film of that, we edited that film down over, over the morning while the surgery was ongoing. And by the time the surgeon stepped away from the… Read More
Well now when you talk about making sure animals are well taken care of, what do you feel is the value of a medical group to a zoo veterinarian?… Read More
And can you give us some examples of this and how it helped?… Read More
Well, a, a medical group, when I was at Lincoln Park, we had a group of medical consultants and, and they met on a, on a regular basis. And that, that con the concept of having outside consultants, you know, get together sort of as a, as a committee or… Read More
So it, it really is gonna be up to their particular resources. But I think you can do, you can do a good job representing both endangered species, some international as well as regional species. This is not an experience that, that I was involved in directly. It didn’t involve… Read More
It it led folks to discover that there was a real weak spot that animal rights advocates could use to go after zoos. And, and that was with these, so like, like a lot of folks in our country, we don’t talk about death a lot and zoos didn’t talk… Read More