Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 484
Why Not necessarily in as much as, right, what, what is your interest in wildlife?… Read More
Why Not necessarily in as much as, right, what, what is your interest in wildlife?… Read More
And you know, there are, are, you know, people that I’ve met working in zoos and you ask them about, okay, right, you know, what do you see yourself in five years?… Read More
Would you recommend Zoo Aquarium feel to a young person with sincere interest in wildlife today?… Read More
I’m a, I mean, you know, one that I’ve already touched on and that’s, you know, publish, publish, publish. You know, just get, you know, when you achieve something or even more importantly when you, when you screw up, when it goes wrong, publish that too. I remember standing at… Read More
What was the most important piece of advice you received that stayed with you throughout the years?… Read More
They’re just, they’re just not a problem. Obviously when they’re a must, you know, that’s a, a different situation. But they need space, they need other elephants. They need to be able to breed from a, a physical health point of view. Females that, you know, have not calfed by… Read More
Correct. I think, I mean, one of these species where space is of vital importance, but there was a, there was a paper that was published in an old issue of international Zulus. And it was the, the most important enrichment item for elephants is other elephants. So keeping them… Read More
In your professional opinion, what’s your view regarding zoo’s, maintaining elephants and how it should be done?… Read More
We’re, we’re, we’re doing this thing, we’re gonna have to have this road closed off. But if you come from this particular, you know, zip code or postcode area, you know, you can get in for, you know, half price on this day or whatever, you know, a a pretty… Read More
A lot of zoos are really bad at letting their, the local population around them know about something that that’s happening that might, you know, be okay, right?… Read More
How important do you think community support is and do you think a zoo can survive without it?… Read More
Oh no, absolutely not. If a, if a zoo does not have the support of its community, then they, the, the, they may not be doomed to failure, but they’ll have way more problems than they actually need to, to cope with the, being sensitive to the local community, having… Read More
And then the next one did it as well. And, and I’ve since, you know, spoken to the handful of people who, some of ’em who’ve worked with Brian Hyenas and relayed this story, so yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve seen that every now and again as well. It’s really weird,… Read More
And we put them together and it was three hours nonstop super heavyweight wrestling championship. No blood was drawn, no damage was done. They were basically having a great time. And from that point, they were literally inseparable. And I mean, again, going back to my, my friend and mentor… Read More
Can you tell us what you meant?… Read More
I mean, as far as you know, there, there, there is, there’s always a percentage of people in the zoo business who see the job the way you do. They, they have a similar intensive interest in zoos and everything about them. It’s almost like carved into their DNA, you… Read More
So I, I want, I keep it simple. Low tech, Is that what you mean by the bio Functional School of design?… Read More
Not In part, yes, but not necessarily the original Howlet Gorilla Cage or Gorilla Go Rium, I think they called it, which is basically an enormous big cage with all kinds of playground style equipment in it and a big deep straw floor before people started using substrate. That’s about… Read More
And you can do that when you’re visiting the site to agree the plans, the building goes up and then you go back on, you know, just before opening day, it’s like, where’s the window?… Read More
How does that work? You know, I can’t see the operating slide from this position. It’s stuff like that, you know, so, so being part draftsman, part architect, experienced zookeeper, that’s kind of the three elements that you need to for approaching zoo design. And keeping it simple, I’m not… Read More