Yeah. It’s necessary, if it’s done right. I think it fills several niches, as I’ve already explained several things. And I think that it is one of the best forms of natural history education that we can provide to children and adults, the live animals. Read More
What do you think about this profession you’ve- Zoo directing?… Read More
Your proudest accomplishment. Accomplishment? I guess survival. (laughs) I love zoos. I love being in them, I loved directing them. Even the Riyadh Zoo. They were all challenges. And I’ve just thoroughly enjoyed it. And I would have to say just the very process, very active running a zoo was… Read More
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What do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
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But I talked to EO Wilson, Ed Wilson about that, and he was fascinated by it. And I said, “You know, in many ways it supports biophilia, everything you’ve written on that.’ He said, “I wish you would write that up, and I want to see it, and I’ll edit… Read More
We had an entrance where you could see all around to that room, and you’d walk down that path. And at the end was a T. And on one side we had a live deer. Actually, it wasn’t a deer, it was gazelle. But it was very tame, very gentle,… Read More
The main thing is there was about a 90% attendance at the live deer. They could see each one very well, they were together. Then there was a pretty high attendance of going crossover from the live deer to the taxidermy deer. And some people went to the taxidermy deer… Read More
And we would time them. Where did they go first? To the live exhibit. And the live exhibit was just plain vanilla. We didn’t even have a plant in there. I mean, on purpose, all we wanted to show was a live deer. Statistically, after about a month of that… Read More
I attended a lecture of his one time. He had what he called biophilia was a theme of his. And it was simply worship, I mean a praise or a celebration of life, love of life. I wondered about that and in a way this is a little stupid. Read More
Now. that’s, I guess a stupid, in many ways it’s a stupid question, but maybe it isn’t. And then I started asking myself, maybe they don’t really like live animals. Maybe a mannequin, maybe a mechanical animal will get just as much attention. This was in Riyadh. After the zoo… Read More
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Absolutely. We need zoos. If we see the movies that’s two dimensional. I did an experiment. Read More
Have you ever heard of EO Wilson, Ed Wilson?… Read More
I bet they were healthier than any other. Well, circus elephants, I think are in good shape. But sometimes they may be a little abused and all that. But I think we should have elephants if at all possible. I think they’re becoming semi domesticated now. They give them another… Read More
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