Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 477
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So you leave Oklahoma City?… Read More
Bill wrote me and said, “Well, somebody has to respond to Morris, to Desmond Morris on ‘The Naked Cage’ stuff.” Well, I wrote Jim, I wrote Bill back, and I said, “If you’re saying the naked cage doesn’t exist, and this is propaganda thing from Desmond Morris, I’m afraid, I… Read More
And did give he leave an alternate?… Read More
Or if you mean we’ve really got to get our act cleaned up and clean, get rid of these naked cages, fine. You know, then that’s how I would respond to him. Read More
I was gonna finish it in Portland, ’cause I had time there and I didn’t do it. Then in Oklahoma City, I even had a contract to write a book on zoos with apprentice. And Conway wrote me a letter. He says, “I understand you’ve got a contract.” And he… Read More
Yeah. You left Oklahoma City. Yeah, the racetrack was the last straw. I didn’t get all those 525 acres to have some goddamn mafia racetrack owner grab the best parts of it. And I wasn’t gonna do that. I quit, I didn’t get fired. I quit. In Fort Worth (chuckles)… Read More
You mean, a different career?… Read More
When did you make the decision that, I want to do something else?… Read More
The West? Oh, with the convention, wait a minute now. When you were at Oklahoma City. Yes. Read More
‘Cause you left Oklahoma City. Read More
About 16 actually, yeah, I started a little early. Read More
You were at the Oklahoma City Zoo approximately 15 years?… Read More
How did you decide, or when did you decide that, “Well, enough’s enough?” And and what was your frustration with the convention?… Read More
I think it was “Mammals in Captivity.” Is that correct?… Read More
No. Well, now there was another book, which Conway edited, I believe in the ’70s. Read More
Yes. I wrote two chapters for that. That’s not what you’re talking about, though. Okay well, I guess I just dropped the ball if I didn’t say anything about reptiles in there. I’ll have to revise that and offer to update it. Read More
What?… Read More
I didn’t have anything on reptiles?… Read More
You wrote about in the book. “Fundamentals,” you had a chapter on mammals. Did I? Well, I haven’t read that in years. Okay. Read More