Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 675
Well, they’re leading the way in educating the public on use of their marine sources. You’ve had experience with elephants. Read More
Well, they’re leading the way in educating the public on use of their marine sources. You’ve had experience with elephants. Read More
Should zoos continue to keep elephants in captivity?… Read More
Well, that’s a good question. I’d have to say yes. And then I would qualify it by saying that we really need to study our modes of care of feeding, I don’t think is a big problem, but behavior. I remember an exhibit I saw in, I’ve forgotten where it… Read More
I mean, you have to look at all the deals. Public service, I hear on the radio all the time. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has put out a list now, new list of marine life organisms that are commonly sold over the counter as food, and which ones are in… Read More
Now, what’s that got to do with the fish there or that aquarium?… Read More
But Arizona Sonora Desert Museum and, even with some fish life, Baja, California, it is in my opinion, still a classic. A lot of it has been copied, which is great. But I still think they are the classic. Maybe other people have done it a lot better. I haven’t… Read More
You were at Lincoln Park 35 years. You’ve seen the same thing. So I think that, I’m very impressed with that zoo. The second zoo I am most impressed with is not a zoo, but it’s the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. I think that place is, it’s in a way… Read More
What was he there about 35 years, something like that?… Read More
Conway initiated it, this during his reign. Read More
It’s easy one for me to answer. You know, you’re gonna, you ask 10 people, 10 zoo people that you’ll probably get 10 answers. And one of them will be the zoo that they run. I think that the Bronx Zoo leads the world in all of the qualities that… Read More
And why do you admire them? And where are they?… Read More
Does that grab you?… Read More
Well, when you talk about that, and we’re speaking about zoos in the United States, and you’ve had experience around the world. Read More
Are there any zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Well my friend, Dolan, who you were talking about a while ago, couldn’t find, but was one short. And he insisted that it was wrong. And when he went back and talked to the aquarius, the aquarius said, “Oh yeah, we took a dead one out about a week ago. Read More
Anyway, that would just be a one form of adaptation. Another one might be reproduction. They just lay zillions of eggs. Go on down the line. feeding, adaptations. Behavioral adaptations, you could select maybe 15 or 20 different adaptation, adaptive modes, and set up a living exhibit showing those. Read More
The second one, the second one is an exhibit. Actually, the same thing, I would envision, the same thing should be done in plants, the plant kingdom. Plants are, you know, just as important as animal life. And although the zoo is zoological, we all know that horticulture is what… Read More
Can you find them?… Read More
They look just like a dead leaf fish. They move like a dead leaf floating in the water. And the exhibit I had said, there are, and we’d change it frequently when one died, there are so many dead leaf fish in this exhibit. Read More
Well, you could probably stick one of those things up somebody’s button, and take movies of it and then show the push button thing. A lot of ways of doing these things. Now, this would be different. I’ve never seen that. It may exist. Read More