We made a deal with the park department, ’cause they were over the zoo, that any money that we earned at the zoo stayed at the zoo. It didn’t have to go to the city hall. Someone told me to do that, and I think it was Robert Bean, I’m… Read More
Why was it important to build it, because of your interest?… Read More
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Oh, yes! I always, that was, that’s the big disappointment, though, in my zoo career. I did a lot to try to get research going. I could get somebody to come in, you know, zoologists, professors usually, and send students down. We even got, when I was at Portland, we… Read More
Was research important to you at the zoo?… Read More
It’s a biology. And if you have any sense at all, you can apply a lot of that information to the husbandry of your animal, the nutrition and to its educational value. So that’s why we gave money to that. Read More
And here was a chance to learn, really learn something about a very important animal, an animal that we had in the zoo. And we wanted to learn more. And some of that was ivory towers. Some of it was just plain, pure science. But a lot of it was… Read More
We did some psychological research, behavioral. Read More
Why? Because we didn’t know anything about the animals. We didn’t know anything about half the animals. I mean, we knew what they were, taxonomically. Nutritionally, we were always on thin water. We’d do things that would work for 50 years, but that’s not knowing anything about nutrition. That’s just… Read More
Why was that important?… Read More
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People that were working on rhino research. Read More
Did you do rhino research?… Read More
You talking about black rhino, why was it important that you sponsor the black rhinoceros research by Garvin McCain and George Stepner?… Read More
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Or is the animal $5,000, and half of it’s 2,500?” “Well, Mr. Stewart, I have to be honest with you, it’s 2,500. But if you could spare the rest, we could take care of the freight and all that sort of thing.” “Well, okay, I’ll give you $5,000 for half… Read More
But they’re ways of conning people for a good cause. And I found it to be very easy and I raised a lot of money. Read More
Which half of that rhinoceros is mine, the front half or the back half?” I said, “Well, which would you prefer?” “Hell, I want the front half! I don’t want to have to clean up after a rhinoceros. Thank you, right, that’s good. You go ahead and go, you go… Read More
A wonderful lady. And my wife and she, and we all got, became very good friends. And, “May I speak with Mr. Stewart?” “Yes, yes.” So Jimmy, “Yes?” “Well, Mr. Stewart, my name is Lawrence.” “Yes. And what do you, what’s Kirk up to these days?” “Well, he’s helping us… Read More
He says, “Well, if the animal, is the animal, $10,000 and half of it is five?… Read More