Interview 22877 – Caption Index: 507
When I was in the National Zoo, keepers would kill to take an animal to the Baltimore Zoo, would spend the day. So it depends on your keeper staff and what they’re willing to do. Read More
When I was in the National Zoo, keepers would kill to take an animal to the Baltimore Zoo, would spend the day. So it depends on your keeper staff and what they’re willing to do. Read More
Do you think keepers think of their, it is a job or a profession?… Read More
You go, oh, and keepers get to vet to other keepers and that’s very helpful. (chuckles) Did you initiate travel programs for your keepers?… Read More
Well, if we had enough people, I would send people down. The keeper group changed a lot when I was there. I mean, I remember I had, we were sending an animal down to Brookfield or Lincoln Park and I went to the senior keeper in small mammals and go,… Read More
And I will tell you that a local university has started a marine biology program just ’cause there’s enough kids who wanna study marine biology in Wisconsin. (chuckles) But there are other people who, I mean, they’re just so dedicated. We have a, I think, I don’t know whether he’s… Read More
But it helps to have mentors for them, doesn’t it, to keep that interest?… Read More
Oh, I would think so. But again, they have to be, you know, you can mentor somebody, but unless you know, I mean, to me mentorship is you make sure if there’s something that they’re interested in, that you can let them know about, if you can send them to… Read More
You wouldn’t know either, I don’t know. I mean, I think it’s, from what I’ve heard, it’s not as cooperative as it used to be. And it tends to be, well, no, this is, and in, yeah. So it’s a work in progress. I think that the Contraception Committee, which… Read More
Knowing what you know today, would you have entered the field when you did and would you enter it today, why?… Read More
Boy, that’s hard to say. Probably, you know, I would enter it. Again, it’s, I don’t know. I mean, I had almost no information about working in a zoo when I started in the zoo and I’m not sure that I would’ve had, I can’t tell you how many people… Read More
Is the national organization leading the local zoo or should the local zoo have more to say about what they want to do within their zoo population?… Read More
I think it depends on the zoo. I mean, the problem with the recommendations is that they change recommendations mid recommendation. I mean, we had a recommendation to breed tigers and so we bred tigers and we had babies and they went, “Oh no, we changed the recommendation.” And I… Read More
We need to move them out.” “No, no, there’s no place for them to go.” I mean, until communication is better, zoos will exist within their zoo population, but it’s, I think it depends on the SSP coordinator and how, and I don’t even, isn’t it all run from Lincoln… Read More
I mean, I remember going to San Diego and they had, was it addra gazelles?… Read More
Others, I don’t know. What’s your position or your thoughts on, when we have the national organization, that many zoos are members of, who have recommendations, as you mentioned, that zoos will follow or try to follow, but if a zoo wants to bring something in, may not get a… Read More
They had some gazelle and said, “Oh, well, we just imported this group of addra gazelles.” And I’m going, “You have a male and two females. I mean, they’re the only ones in the country. You’re gonna have a breeding population with three animals. I mean, and how long is… Read More
Your thoughts on new trends in zoos in the last quarter century?… Read More
Drastic reduction of animal species in the collection of zoos, immersion landscaping, your thoughts on these trends or other trends?… Read More
Well, I think they’re trends just because we’re not getting animals from the wild. I mean, you have to, zoos have to think about animals as a zoo population. Not your zoo population, but a zoo population, so they’re managed much more cooperatively than they used to be. And luckily… Read More
What would you want in your zoo, from the curatorial level, that you’d wanna see, and money was not a problem, and acquisition was not a problem?… Read More