I very, and, and seemed very comfortable with that. And many years later I was talking with her, you know, thinking about things and, and wanting to kind of explore how, how would you know, you looked like you were having a good time interacting with the gorilla. Read More
And it was some time later when I ran into her at one of these meetings and, and asked, so what, whatever happened with that?… Read More
How did, how did that work? She said, oh, it worked great. We, we put the cast on her. The biggest thing we were worried about was that it would get an infection, a bacterial infection, and we weren’t gonna be able to see it. She wasn’t gonna be able… Read More
Maybe we ought to cover it. And they said, well, let, let’s just, let’s just do it one more time and you know, we won’t have to put the big cast on, we’ll just put a short one on. And they came in the next morning and the gorilla was… Read More
You know, gorillas have always surprised me with what you can get away with, but what are you, are you are, are you trying to fix a fracture?… Read More
’cause I think internal would, she said, no, it has nothing to do with that. It’s, I think it may have been a spider bite. The animal has a big patch of skin that Necros died and we have to do a skin graft and, and you can’t disturb those. Read More
That was when I was at Lincoln Park. I used to, we used to, I used to host a nutrition meeting and you know, as, as we, as we had those meeting, as those meetings evolved, I chose topics that were of interest to, that I thought was that were… Read More
And one was, I, I had talked with veterinarian that she called me up and, and asked, have you ever put a cast on an adult gorilla?… Read More
And I said, well, I haven’t, but I, I wouldn’t let that stop me. Read More
Does your role or responsibilities change in this position Like the day before and the day after the position changed?… Read More
Can you relate some very specifically, the gorilla with the removable cast?… Read More
Not really, you know, but, but I, I think it’s, you know, if you look at, if you look at what our job was, what our responsibilities were, and then the things that we were accomplishing, I think you’ve got this sort of, you know, steady progression. And then, you… Read More
And, and, and so we were looking at gorillas, chimps, orangs, but instead the animals and the populations that have been mostly impacted are carnivores, big cats, canids. It’s gone through a few zoos as a few zoo gorilla populations, but we haven’t seen it in other great apes. And… Read More
Well, the, the veterinary services part, and again, I’m can’t remember exactly the, the chain of events, but I think it happened around the time that we changed the name of the department to veterinary services. And, and I think it was a recognition of, you know, I, not necessarily… Read More
How does this promotion come to you?… Read More
What importance should a veterinarian put on infectious diseases and how they may affect the zoo population?… Read More
I, I think, I mean, infectious diseases is a particular interest of mine, more from the standpoint of wildlife and things we call emerging infectious diseases. A great example of an emerging infectious disease that’s in the news on a pretty regular basis is highly pathogenic avian influenza. This is… Read More
So infectious diseases is perhaps not as important as it used to be in terms of a direct threat, something that you had to treat on a regular basis. But in terms of being aware of it as an environmental threat and something that can move between people and animals… Read More
I think, and I’ll also speak here, one of the things that I’ve done with a ZA is I’ve been a part of and now an advisor to the A ZA safety committee since that committee was created. And animal escapes is a, a key part of that. The biggest… Read More
They’re, they’re really comparing apples and oranges. And so trying to get that message across that we need to, that veterinarians need to understand that they are two different circumstances. The animal’s behavior is completely, you know, an animal in a space. The animal in that’s, that’s in a space… Read More