Interview 22877 – Caption Index: 459
Would you say that curators and professional staff, based on your experience, need training on how to interact with animal rights groups?… Read More
Would you say that curators and professional staff, based on your experience, need training on how to interact with animal rights groups?… Read More
We collected fecal samples for a year during, well, during Eve’s pregnancy and the vets took blood samples who could send ’em to Front Royal and they could create charts. So Patricia could just get a fecal sample from a female she suspected of being pregnant and could run the,… Read More
I think the, and again, I mean, I’ve been retired since 2007. So, I mean, I go to the Milwaukee Zoo and I’ve been there several times. I think the emphasis on animals in the wild tends to detract from the mission of the zoo and what zoos do. I… Read More
Do you feel it’s important for curators to publish?… Read More
Who do I talk to?” In talking about, what would you say or think is the largest professional problem facing US zoos today and identify what can we do about correcting the problem?… Read More
I don’t know how many, what I’ve… I think that it’s important for curators to share animal information. I don’t really know whether there’s the emphasis on scientific journals. I mean, I found the American Keeper Forum much more interesting in terms of day-to-day keeper work than any of the… Read More
They may have heard of Conway as the director of the zoo. They’d have no idea who Hediger and Crandall are. I mean, I made sure all the keeper areas had a copy of Crandall’s book and Hediger’s books were, and nobody I worked with had heard of them before,… Read More
I think it gives them, now I haven’t read the books in years, so I’m not sure how they stand, you see, Walker, I used Walker all the time when I started at the National Zoo. So Ernest Walker, I thought was great in terms of just mammals and just… Read More
How important is it for them to know?… Read More
They need to, well, even even keepers, you do not have a job in a zoo where you’re not working with people. You’re always going to be working with people. You need to know how to work with people, how to, you know, whether as a collaborative or manage people. Read More
Is it important?… Read More
The other thing is is I think they need to look back and tend to think historically, ’cause I remember hearing, oh, well we do it so much better than they used to do it. You know, this is what they used to do and we do this. There’s no… Read More
And people loved watching them go through. And keepers loved creating things to make them, you know, like this is, you shove things into this leaf to make them hunt for their food. But it was, but the animals that came from the zoo environment were successful, they could reproduce,… Read More
So zoos serve a purpose, but more as animal ambassadors and with some of the other, I mean, in Milwaukee we’ve raised box turtles, some turtles for reintroduction. Done work with massasaugas, tracking massasaugas in the wild. A lot of zoos now have projects that are outside that are conservation… Read More
What skillset qualities does a curator or a general curator need today as compared to when you started?… Read More
Well, I mean, when there was, on ZooLex, there was someone who wanted to build a, wanted a virtual zoo in England, I guess, where you would just be looking at animals in the wild. You would never have the animals there. And when we had the regional conference in… Read More
Devra’s golden lion tamarin project in Brazil, remarkably successful, but it was a big learning curve on, you know, training animals and how you can adapt the animals to the wild. When they first had them, reintroduced them into the rainforest in Santos, they found out that the animals were… Read More
You were a couple years, you were… ’68. Six- Oh, ’68, yeah, so you were four or five years before. And we were, that was the time the zoo was an ark. We’re going to save, you know, save the big species and the small species. Well, everybody will be,… Read More
I mean, constant, when did you start at Lincoln Park?… Read More
How so?… Read More