Tarpon Springs. Mike sent up one pink porpoise, and she had it in Fort Worth. Lawrence Curtis flew to Fort Worth and saw it, bought it, and it was flown into Fort Worth. We locked the hippos in their barn and used their outdoor pool to get the pink porpoise… Read More
T-S-A-L-I-C-K-I-E-S. Mike Tsalikes worked out of Columbia. He sold a lot of reptiles through his partner. Read More
God, where did I get that name?… Read More
Not a big… If you worked in a zoo that used it, it was not featured. The news media made a lot out of it, but it wasn’t made a lot out of, didn’t deserve it. Didn’t deserve it, the attention it was getting. Now at the Fort Worth Zoo,… Read More
Yes. That’s rare. Curtis bought the first one from Trudy Jerkins, a lady importer of South American stuff. Her partner, Mike Tsalikes. Read More
Were you involved in that, in acquiring it?… Read More
Now when you worked with Toby, was he one of the first vets to start using tranquilizer guns?… Read More
I think it was Tucson. Tucson. Yeah. No, he was in Texas. Oh, oh, Toby was in Texas. Toby was in Texas. He was the vet at- Anyway, he sent my good word. Read More
Yes. Wasn’t the first. The first tranquilizer gun I came across was in Catskill, the inventor of the tranquilizer gun. Somebody, I don’t remember his name. Red Palmer. And Red Palmer sold the first tranquilizer gun to Roland Lindemann, and I used it at Catskill, used it in front of… Read More
Limousine?… Read More
Picking up people in the airport. And he called one day, one night. He had picked up Toby Tobias’s daughter. I didn’t even know he had a daughter, but he talked to her, and found out Toby was retired. Read More
Do you remember where he was?… Read More
Sure. Read More
And what was your relationship?… Read More
Oh, Toby Tobias was a vet. He was a hell of a good vet. My son, for a while before he died, he was driving, driving a vehicle. Limousine. Read More
Yeah, Roland Lindemann ran a much improved version of the zoo. It was very well run in Fort Worth. Was more of a zoo that featured the general curator. Whatever, director. Read More
Did you work with Toby Tobias?… Read More
With John. Hummingbirds and the plane. Yeah. Yeah, we had to feed the hummingbirds on the plane coming back. Yeah, it was something. And ask him about the pink porpoise. He was involved in it. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We didn’t bring any pink porpoise. Read More
When you, basic, when you came from this privately run zoo by Roland Lindemann to a more public zoo, operated by the city of Fort Worth, did you see differences in the way it was run, both of them were run?… Read More
No, no, no. That’s separate. I said ask you about the pink porpoise. That was a separate thing. That was a separate thing. Well, let me ask you, Frank, a question. Read More