You know, you got any experience or who else should I call?” Or, you know. So it still, I think, hasn’t fully gotten into the internet age in my experience, of course I just barely got a cell phone after a year, so I may not be the one to… Read More
How important would you say science and research is in zoos, and should they be doing more in this regard, or less?… Read More
I think our key advancement that I see in veterinary medicine for me has been the ability to safely anesthetize animals, to give us access to them for diagnostic and treatment, and also for the research. Because if you can’t safely anesthetize an animal, you know, a lot of people… Read More
Is it instantaneous now or — I think it could be a lot better. An example that I’d like to give is in Thailand, where they’ve got a fairly decent cadre of veterinarians there who can speak and understand English, and they have a website, and I’ve been tried to… Read More
With the advent of the internet, and that applicability, how has sharing internationally and nationally on some of the subjects we’ve talked about, been among the zoo vets?… Read More
And a lot of people hadn’t done that. So that was part of our study, Dave Wilton, I said, well if we’re gonna freeze it, we’re gonna thaw some of it out to make sure that we’ve frozen it in the right way, you know, the right temperature, the right… Read More
And there’s been always this pie in the sky that people say, “Well we’ve got a frozen zoo, you know, ’cause we’ve got some sperm frozen somewhere.” And early on we kind of took that to test, yeah, you froze it, but when you thaw it out, is it viable?… Read More
How advanced would you say veterinary medicine has become, and can you give me an example of that would demonstrate that advancement?… Read More
We talked about cheetahs, regarding theriogenelogy, can you tell us something about it, what it’s about, and how that has had an application to veterinary medicine, or zoo management of specific species?… Read More
Well, just following the progress of my people that have done internships, and see where they are, and how they’re situated in the profession. Read More
Well, theriogeneology is kind of encompassing the, pardon me, the field of reproductive physiology, and assisted reproduction. It’s kind of tied in with those various aspects of artificial insemination, embryo transfer, you know, just general reproductive health, and trying to maintain genetic diversity in certain isolated populations. Read More
So that may be one thing that’s happening. But … And then they were, I was gonna stay, I guaranteed them I’d stay one year. They wanted me to sign on for three years, I think because of my experience with giant pandas, and they were gonna try to breed… Read More
But no, they were just happy to see me go. So …… Read More
In the internship programs that you’ve developed, what has made you the happiest, or that given you the most satisfaction in these internship programs?… Read More
Yes. “Chris”, I said, basically you’ve got two things wrong here.” I said, “Number one, you’re a roadside zoo with giant pandas.” And so he told the board that I said that and he said, “I have to agree with Mitch.” He said, “We’re not doing …” They had big… Read More
And then basically after being there while I told the Director who was Chris West, Did you know Chris?… Read More
Because?… Read More
So pandas have kind of followed me around for my career. Read More
Well, I … The situation was they had three veterinarians, three veterinarians there and they had a facility like Front Royal out at a place called Monarto, and a small zoo within the city. And I was there about five days, and I told the director, I said, “You didn’t… Read More
And what was that title?… Read More