I walked back out ’cause somebody says else, “Every time I tried to walk into that cage, he’d grab it.” And he was strong enough. He could keep me from walking in the cage. There was a female orang on exhibit. I put him down, left him to his own… Read More
He was called Little Lawrence by everybody in the zoo except the zoo director, whose name was Lawrence. And Little Lawrence was loose. And I went in and closed the door behind me, obviously. Little Lawrence was, oh, two or three years old. He put us back feet around my… Read More
That was how I got Little Lawrence in the cage. Read More
And you went down, down at either end of the pool and viewed the porpoise in the water. Now this was, this was a month or more following the porpoise’s arrival. And she was putting this pool in the aquarium building along about the time she went in, went in… Read More
Are there any that stand out that you were involved in, in helping to put together?… Read More
No (chuckles). I took a phone call one night, three o’clock in the morning, night watchman. “My God, you’ve gotta get down here. Something’s loose in the ape house.” And I said, “What do you mean something?” And he said, “I don’t know what, but there’s something loose. The last… Read More
I think she’s near Tarpon Springs, wasn’t she?… Read More
Where was Trudy Jerkins?… Read More
Tarpon Springs. Mike sent up one pink porpoise, and she had it in Fort Worth. Lawrence Curtis flew to Fort Worth and saw it, bought it, and it was flown into Fort Worth. We locked the hippos in their barn and used their outdoor pool to get the pink porpoise… Read More
T-S-A-L-I-C-K-I-E-S. Mike Tsalikes worked out of Columbia. He sold a lot of reptiles through his partner. Read More
God, where did I get that name?… Read More
Not a big… If you worked in a zoo that used it, it was not featured. The news media made a lot out of it, but it wasn’t made a lot out of, didn’t deserve it. Didn’t deserve it, the attention it was getting. Now at the Fort Worth Zoo,… Read More
Were you involved in that, in acquiring it?… Read More
Yes. That’s rare. Curtis bought the first one from Trudy Jerkins, a lady importer of South American stuff. Her partner, Mike Tsalikes. Read More
I think it was Tucson. Tucson. Yeah. No, he was in Texas. Oh, oh, Toby was in Texas. Toby was in Texas. He was the vet at- Anyway, he sent my good word. Read More
Yes. Wasn’t the first. The first tranquilizer gun I came across was in Catskill, the inventor of the tranquilizer gun. Somebody, I don’t remember his name. Red Palmer. And Red Palmer sold the first tranquilizer gun to Roland Lindemann, and I used it at Catskill, used it in front of… Read More
Now when you worked with Toby, was he one of the first vets to start using tranquilizer guns?… Read More
Do you remember where he was?… Read More
Picking up people in the airport. And he called one day, one night. He had picked up Toby Tobias’s daughter. I didn’t even know he had a daughter, but he talked to her, and found out Toby was retired. Read More
Limousine?… Read More