I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m gonna try. And so, she said, “Oh, sure, we can help you.” And she helped us. And we were able to successfully, in six months time, rescue those animals and bring them here. Without her help, it would’ve never happened. Without their… Read More
We need to be able to bring new animals into our stock of animals, and be able to change the bloodlines of our animals so they don’t become inbred and have problems along the way. And so we need these folks as part of our business. We do need to… Read More
And ask her, can you help me?… Read More
I need help, I have no clue what I’m doing, but I said I would try to do it. I have no clue what I’m doing. Read More
As usual, right?… Read More
And so AZA called us and asked us to rescue these animals. Well, I don’t know how to move animals from Africa to here. I have no clue. Read More
I hadn’t a clue. So I called Holly Hunt, wonderful, wonderful person, great person, Holly Hunt, who is part of International Animal Exchange, who, in the old days would be called an animal dealer, animal mover, and a transport company. Read More
I have absolutely, how do you get three full grown adult elephants to Pittsburgh from Botswana?… Read More
But in fact, the zoos, all of our zoos back in the day got animals, and we got animals through animal dealers. That’s how we got them. That’s how we got ’em into the states. And so when we looked to rescue three elephants outta Botswana, we were called by… Read More
Well, I think that, in some cases, animal dealers get a bad rap. It’s like anything else, zoos included. There’s good zoos and there’s bad zoos. There’s good people and there’s bad people. There’s good insects and there’s bad insects. I mean, anything you name, there’s the good and bad… Read More
The generator was $18,000. So if they had a power outage, they didn’t lose all the tissues, and their samples, and all of the things that they had in their labs there. We helped them build part of their laboratory there for their veterinarian work out of, and we built… Read More
What do you see as the cause of this change?… Read More
And how has the role of individual dealers and companies changed with respect to the development of modern zoos?… Read More
But we adopted that project, and support it, and we still support them. We supported them for 15 years, and sent staff over there, and work with them all the time. They come over to our place and give presentations, and educational programs and stuff about what they’re doing. They… Read More
I think it’s still viable. I don’t think it’s gotten the marketing, or the PR, or the word of mouth that it needs to. And I think a lot of people may think that it requires millions of dollars, as opposed to smaller amounts of money are still helpful and… Read More
Financial?… Read More
Why have zoos not picked up on the challenge in more numbers?… Read More
Is this kind of thing, adopting a national park, that’s still viable?… Read More
You might have an elephant there in the future, but you don’t now. And so that’s very hard. It would be hard for me to raise money for a facility in Florida that I have no ties to other than it’s the National Elephant Facility, for example. It would be… Read More
So sort of the original model was flawed, because there’re not enough elephants for the zoos that want elephants right now in their collection. And a lot of the elephants in captivity today, in our care, are older animals. So they’re not gonna be moving them around. And so there… Read More