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I don’t know. The Friends of the National Zoo asked me if I wanted to go and I said yes. Probably ’cause the pandas were part of my area. Read More

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And can you explain who they are, that group?… Read More

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The Friends of the National Zoo?… Read More

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Oh, I think the birth of the panda, you know, that had worked, so they’d worked so long and so hard with that that that was… Oh, I shouldn’t say that, because I did, I did go to, I did a trip for the Friends of the National Zoo. Went… Read More

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How were you picked to take this trip among all the senior staff?… Read More

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But during your time at the National Zoo, did you receive or were you able to have international experience?… Read More

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What would you consider your professional high point working at the National Zoo?… Read More

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Were you able to visit other zoos, when you were a collection manager and higher. I visited other zoos, but I did it when I was on vacation. I never traveled internationally when I was with the National Zoo, no. Now what did you consider, you talked about a low… Read More

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No. But I believe I probably did. Read More

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So this was related to Brazil?… Read More

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It was in a magazine in 1992. Okay. Read More

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I mean, if you’ve got to separate animals and you can’t get them through the doors, what use is it?… Read More

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In 1992 in a zoo magazine, you said, “It feels good to be connected to an international community of captive and wild animal population managers.” Remember saying that?… Read More

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You know, if you, you know, you’ve gotta keep one outside. You gotta keep one inside. I mean, we had, one of my jobs as a keeper, when I discovered I really couldn’t work nights was, I spent four months watching the Indian rhinos they were trying to breed, Falkner,… Read More

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Oh, I was just thinking practicality. Read More

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Were you thinking, when you were involved in that, were you thinking about zoo exhibit design philosophy?… Read More

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She had been down at the, she’d been down to the White House all dressed up in her finery with Jim Jones, our primary elephant keeper, to meet President Reagan and was in Time Magazine, and all the rest. So it was, I got to go to my first and… Read More

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Is it true that the National Zoo cannot reject a diplomatic gift?… Read More

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I mean, you took all of these diplomat, the zoo took all of these animals. I don’t ever remember them rejecting a diplomatic gift. But it’s not done now. You know, I think, I can’t remember one after Ling and, well, no, Reagan, that was the last one. So that… Read More

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So we got a baby elephant from, now was it Sri Lanka?… Read More