Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 169
What were some of your strategies to get the community to embrace the zoo?… Read More
What were some of your strategies to get the community to embrace the zoo?… Read More
Did you ever have any surprise donations?… Read More
Fundraising. Well, I was involved a lot in both Sacramento and Cleveland. We always had professional development staff, but they used to, I was part of the show and tell and talked to ’em more about the animals and the new exhibits or the new programs. We were trying to… Read More
Not always, sometimes the Ze Society would go take ’em on their own, but I try, I was available to them when they needed me and, and I had no problem with it and learned to be really good. And some of the larger donations from the Spillman who had… Read More
Ask the director, how well did you embrace the role of development?… Read More
What you mean fundraise? Fundraising?… Read More
It’s a very positive experience. Read More
And what was the other part of the question?… Read More
Animal counters. Yeah, we, you know, giraffe feeding anytime you can, if you can get, a lot of that happens behind the scenes with special donors and stuff. You can’t have, you can’t have the whole zoo go behind the scenes and have an animal encounters. But we can take… Read More
They’re never gonna have the same experience, the animal that they would in an exhibit. But you can make it not the same, but you could make it equal, in other words, ’cause they get interactions with people, they get outside, they do other types of activities other than just… Read More
So it was pretty simple, but it was, it was always a message, always a conservation message. But it was done with good humor. Plus we had a guy that was trained in SeaWorld. He was very good. He’s now the animal ambassador person at the Natural History Museum. So… Read More
Oh, I think they’re, they’re great when they work. Warren Thomas was a champion. He put you a lot of baboons in with chimps and you know, a lot of people have put Spectacle Bear or Andy and Bears with arctic foxes, not Arctic Fox with other, with Tates or… Read More
It was, it worked wonderful. It was great. They both, you know, they ignored each other. It was, no rhino wasn’t gonna attack a cheetah. She had no interest in the rhino. It was wonderful. Only reason we got rid of it. It wasn’t a good exhibit for white rhino. Read More
I thought they might wanna play with them a little too much. So we never did it. Well, let’s see. Animal shows as I, well, we had a, when I was there, we had several, we had at least two all every day in the summer, we had a show… Read More
Can you talk about your philosophy of mixed exhibits?… Read More
You get it from the top, you get it from the bottom. So I think the curator job is, is really, really a difficult job, particularly nowadays. When we asked so much more of them wasn’t just when you and I started, you know, they were just responsible for getting… Read More
They have to understand where to get animals. They have to be, have good soft skills. They have to understand pr, they have to work with unions. There’s just so much that a curator has to do now. Plus, in a sense, they got the worst job in the world… Read More
But it is really helpful to have really trained professionals that can move animals. I think that’s really important. But as far as dealers are concerned, I don’t see a need for ’em at all. And It was different In the old days, we didn’t have computers and we didn’t… Read More
What could be worse than middle management?… Read More
Well, not all probably, but most I think in different ways. Again, they could talk about some of the issues with human wildlife conflict or lack of loss of space, or whatever the particular issue is with that species or, or climate change or whatever that have, that might have… Read More