Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 370
Can you talk about them as it affects wildlife?… Read More
Can you talk about them as it affects wildlife?… Read More
And I know no amount of that sort of interpretive is going to, you know, is going to be optimum in terms of making sure that people understand what is, who’s trying to do what an exhibit’s trying to tell them. It’s a real challenge. Did you find that your… Read More
It’s an ongoing, it’s an ongoing science really as to, as to how to do it well, particularly if it’s, you know, if you’ve got the people who can actually provide that service, the person to person service, that’s great. But, but obviously a lot of institutions either can’t afford… Read More
But at the end of the day, and, and we are coming back round to that now, I think at the end of the day, and usually it’s gotta be volunteers, there’s no absolutely no substitute for a live person, person to person that is far more effective than, than… Read More
Do you think zoos have solved that problem of interpretation?… Read More
Well, you know, in a way, successful interpretation has, has rather gone round, full circle years back. The best way always was having a living human being, preferably a member of staff or, or a docent interpreting an exhibit live to somebody. But of course, because that’s expensive on time,… Read More
What has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to visitors?… Read More
Well, I’m, I’m not a big expert on, on the species survival program. I mean, I’m, I’m aware it’s there and some of the species that that that we’ve been, that I’ve been involved in both, both in London and and over and and North Carolina, as far as I’m… Read More
Well not just zoo breeding, but other, you mentioned private breeders, in this case a government breeder bring breeding animals together in a consorted effort to put them back in the wild. But the main, the main examples have been with small, small animals, birds, a lot of birds, the… Read More
Has the selection criteria to decide which animal species become part of the program met with what you envisioned?… Read More
Yeah, actually pretty good. And, and this is, this is one of the, one of the things the sort of anti anti zoo lobby keeps going on about is that, well, there’s been very few of these circumstances. I think the thing is that most, most of the really successful… Read More
At one time, certainly in my early days in the zoo, oh, if you had a gorilla it never went anywhere else. You, you know, you had to, you know, there was no sort of no no getting together. That’s obviously changed dramatically over, over the last 30 to 40… Read More
How successful do you think zoos and aquarium have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wine?… Read More
I thought they did, at least. I mean there there’ve been efforts over the years to try to coordinate well a number of larger species. And obviously moving elephants is a, is a big issue. But a, I mean a ZA does have a ZA does anyway, have a program… Read More
Yeah. Why do you, why do you think that zoos did not implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
I mean, it’s a huge area, not 2 million, but 2000 square miles practically untouched because of civil war had really, nobody had been in that area, it was just unsafe to go into. But recent surveys show it to be pretty well unchanged over, you know, over a period… Read More
There are certain species, you mentioned finance, there are certain species that it seems might be good if there was a national program to, to, to do things. Read More
Well, it, it is, obviously it does. I’m, I’m not sure that it actually attracts any extra people. It is an addi, it’s an additional fac very family oriented additional facility, which, which provides an added dimension to the day out. And obviously many of the people coming to the… Read More
Yeah, that’s a, that’s a good question. There, there is a wild, it has to do mainly with, with just area, you know, acreage, to put it, to put it mildly, where, where there are areas that are largely untouched by humans and are big enough to still be mainly… Read More
Do you believe there’s still a wild out there or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into managed wild zoos?… Read More