It’s changed quite a bit, obviously for the better. It’s got a long way to go. I may not be right. I mean this is Rick Ji’s opinion, but again, we have to take a much more active role in, in saving habitats in the wild. And sometimes I think… Read More
Your conservation budget is what you’re doing with animals, you know, in, in outside of the zoo and other habitats. So I think there’ll be zoos, but I think there’ll be, there’ll be more like the, the zoos I mentioned earlier. I think there’ll be bigger zoos. I, I don’t,… Read More
They’re not gonna be able to walk the talk. You’ve been in the profession over half a century. Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
What direction would you think will help keep them relevant?… Read More
Well, I’m not, I don’t want to see zoos survive in the next 25 years. If they’re not doing the right things that we talked about, conservation animal care, I think there’ll be less zoos in the future. I think they’ll have less species, but bigger quality habitats and, and… Read More
And, and I, I, I think the big zoos have these mega exhibits and they’re, they’re, they’re amazingly powerful immersive exhibits. We call it immersive naturalistic habitats. They have their place if you can afford it. But to say, well, you know, well just give that money to the wild,… Read More
And is it, is it worth, is it worth that money?… Read More
So, so you have to say, am I doing it?… Read More
The gorilla doesn’t care if it’s a straight wall or it’s got contours and it’s colored. I don’t think they care about that as long as they got other vegetation and stuff in the exhibit. Read More
Who am I doing this for?… Read More
You’re doing that for the public, right?… Read More
Well, it’s hard to prove, but after many, many years, people going through those exhibits and seeing those gorillas, some of them are gonna help save them in the wild in some way. And, and it should. You spend millions of dollars just on making rock, you know, incredible rock… Read More
Now talked about you raised a million dollars when a zoo spends multimillion dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or a tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this money is not used to help animals in the wild. You say what?… Read More
There are two different pots of money. It, the, the person that’s gonna give you millions of dollars for a gorilla exhibit is not necessarily gonna give you millions of dollars to save them in the wild. They’re different type of people. ’cause you are at a zoo with 2… Read More
You’re spending all this millions of dollars and what, how’s it saving gorillas?… Read More
Is it worth, is it worth, is it worth this kind of double standard sometimes that we put ourselves in?… Read More
But you have to think about, you know, what, what’s the end result gonna be for this?… Read More
That, you know, he, he was glad that he made that impact. But, but I, nobody’s perfect. He did a lot of things that were, were, were questionable. We all, we all have to some degree. Read More
They called Jack Hannon. They didn’t call Bill Conway. They didn’t call the experts. They called Jack. So Jack, Jack was a figurehead for us. But some of the real scientific people think he made, he, he, he kind of degraded our profession by clowning around on tv. It’s a… Read More