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
You know, what are the interests of the, of their membership or their visitors?… Read More
What, what kind of space do they have available?… Read More
I think there’s so many different ways to develop an institutional collection plan. Read More
So as you’ve seen some of these things unfold, what skill, what kind, what can a small or medium sized municipal zoo do today to be involved in wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally?… Read More
Considering these financial resources available to these smaller, medium sized zoos, do you think the focus, they should have a focus on their collection for all animals or endangered species or western zoos with western animals?… Read More
Well, I, I think I’ve seen that for a small to medium sized zoo. I, I’ve seen it done two ways. One is they can be a participant or partner with another institution on a big global program that they’re doing on ape rescues in Africa, or the work that… Read More
What skillset would you say a zoo veterinarian needs today as compared to when you started?… Read More
I, I think the, the big difference I, from when I started, the year I graduated from vet school, there was one textbook on zoo animal medicine and it was in German. And today there are volumes and volumes of literature on very particular topics in various animals. So today,… Read More
Yeah, that’s a, that’s a tough one. Life lessons from my, Your interactions From my patients, from my interactions with them. I, I think that sometimes animals really do have a sense perhaps that we are trying to help them. ’cause I know in hindsight there were circumstances where by… Read More
I I, I think it was perhaps the genetics in my family of coming from a line of salespeople, people that got along with people I’ve heard a lot of, a lot of animal keepers say, I, I like to work with animals because I, I really don’t get along… Read More
What would you say made you a good veterinarian?… Read More
And I snuck in the back door and pulled it out real quick. We tried that. And of course as soon as we opened the stall door, he whipped around and dropped his head, that one’s gonna work. So Bruce thought about it and he went back to one of… Read More
I’m gonna walk into the stall and he’s gonna charge me and I’ll put his horns into the wall on either side of me, but he’ll try and pick me up and throw me off. So Paul, you gotta drape yourself over his neck so he can’t pick us both… Read More
It was like everyday stuff In all the animals you’ve taken care of, have you learned any life lessons from ’em?… Read More
And it, it worked great and you know, we just did some routine stuff, hoof trims, physical exam. And, you know, at the end of it we were high fiving each other and we, we woke him up. It was a drug, it was a drug that was partially a… Read More
What if, what if you tried to lure him up to this side of the stall with a treat?… Read More
So I said, well he’s, he’s still got a sedative on board. He’s as sleepy as he’s gonna get. Read More
Bente Bente is one that, that folks know about. There was the, the one that I, the one that I tell zoo people that generally makes them drop their jaws in disbelief. When I was doing my residency at St. Louis, we had an, an anesthesia resident, so he is… Read More
Is there one where you were involved?… Read More