Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 669
Conway initiated it, this during his reign. Read More
Conway initiated it, this during his reign. Read More
What was he there about 35 years, something like that?… Read More
You were at Lincoln Park 35 years. You’ve seen the same thing. So I think that, I’m very impressed with that zoo. The second zoo I am most impressed with is not a zoo, but it’s the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. I think that place is, it’s in a way… Read More
And why do you admire them? And where are they?… Read More
It’s easy one for me to answer. You know, you’re gonna, you ask 10 people, 10 zoo people that you’ll probably get 10 answers. And one of them will be the zoo that they run. I think that the Bronx Zoo leads the world in all of the qualities that… Read More
Does that grab you?… Read More
Are there any zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Well, when you talk about that, and we’re speaking about zoos in the United States, and you’ve had experience around the world. Read More
Anyway, that would just be a one form of adaptation. Another one might be reproduction. They just lay zillions of eggs. Go on down the line. feeding, adaptations. Behavioral adaptations, you could select maybe 15 or 20 different adaptation, adaptive modes, and set up a living exhibit showing those. Read More
Well my friend, Dolan, who you were talking about a while ago, couldn’t find, but was one short. And he insisted that it was wrong. And when he went back and talked to the aquarius, the aquarius said, “Oh yeah, we took a dead one out about a week ago. Read More
The second one, the second one is an exhibit. Actually, the same thing, I would envision, the same thing should be done in plants, the plant kingdom. Plants are, you know, just as important as animal life. And although the zoo is zoological, we all know that horticulture is what… Read More
Can you find them?… Read More
They look just like a dead leaf fish. They move like a dead leaf floating in the water. And the exhibit I had said, there are, and we’d change it frequently when one died, there are so many dead leaf fish in this exhibit. Read More
Well, you could probably stick one of those things up somebody’s button, and take movies of it and then show the push button thing. A lot of ways of doing these things. Now, this would be different. I’ve never seen that. It may exist. Read More
What’s the second one?… Read More
Have you seen such an exhibit?… Read More
You know, like a tape worm. How do you show a tape?… Read More
What’s the common biological characteristics, plural, that they have in common?… Read More
I envision now, that’s just one class of animals. So taxonomically, we’ve got X number of fila that we, you know, without just a few species in it, but significant conspicuous fila, with conspicuous classes. Each would be an exhibit, so that a person could go in that building, and… Read More
Well, we got snakes, and we got lizards, and crocodilians and turtles and tuataras, okay. Read More