You think, well, it’s absurd, it’s stupid. I don’t think it’s stupid or absurd, but I think it could very well be. Now, when they pull out of the Pacific Ocean, a shark 22 feet long with a mouth this wide, and heavier than, I guess two and a half,… Read More
And they just pulled it out, what, 20 years ago, who would’ve thought that fish was down there?… Read More
Anyway, I think that that animal may very well exist. I’m not telling you it does, but I think it may. Now, these sightings of dinosaurs in Central Africa. And I think we’ve seen, or somebody has seen drawings, wall paintings and all. I don’t think they have, again, we’re… Read More
Of course. First of all, I’m a romantic. You’ve asked me about crypto zoology. Let’s take the Loch Ness Monster. I’ve read everything I can find on that alleged animal. Remember the, who was the Birdman, who he was? Oh me. He got the law passed that would protect the… Read More
Can you gimme yours?… Read More
And they just moved up north, getting these snakes, buying them or stealing them or something. And almost 1,000 rattlesnakes. I mean, I couldn’t, I talked to, went down to the jail, and talked to both these guys when they were sober. And they were doing it for somebody, which… Read More
The cars, both cars, they said, were filled with rattlesnakes. Okay, so what can you do? Well, we… Found three rooms that were snake proof, and we just started, well, I mean, they brought them to the zoo. And we’d open up a box, or these sacks and all that. Read More
Where they were taking them was to Washington DC, and they were gonna turn them loose on the mall. I think they were anti-Vietnamese war. They may have been anti-somebody else, but that was the plan. Change pace just a bit. I within talk a little about crypto zoology, and… Read More
Remember they kind of made, was putting sues, they had some law, humane laws on, on federal offenses, which may have been involved the zoo?… Read More
Department of Agriculture had their area on importation and all that. Department of Interior had the Endangered Species Act, but they also had a Humane Animal Act. And I don’t remember the details except, it was very, if you really had evidence, it was good. And I got the local… Read More
And every weekend there’s a rattlesnake roundup somewhere. Okay, so we got several of them stopped, and made a lot of enemies, of course, in the process, including the local, the Jaycees in Oklahoma City. I never could get them on board. I finally got them to not oppose it. Read More
There were a lot of demonstrations going on in Washington, DC at that time, the Vietnam War. I got the game, the Federal Department of Interior guy who…… Read More
We never got it stopped, but we managed to slow it down a bit. This is an activity sponsored by the Jaycees. You know who they are? The Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Jaycees, are the big deals in any little town in Oklahoma. I mean, that’s the organization. And… Read More
Oh yeah, I’ve forgotten all about this. Read More
So you never got it stopped?… Read More
How’d you get involved in the stopping of the rattlesnake hunts?… Read More
We had to kick a few of them out. And that’s another thing, individual animals, and behavior and all, you have to watch for that. You can’t draw conclusions from just four or five animals. You may need to try 25 animals on a certain diet, or on something or… Read More
Well, we didn’t get it done. I didn’t. How did I get involved? They’re cruel. They go out and catch those rattlesnakes. They put gasoline into the boroughs. They hook it up, hoses up to exhaust systems. And what they don’t kill, they catch and bring in and, terrible! I… Read More
The condor, what we called the Condor Cliffs and Patagonian Panorama. It was temperate, South American animals. We had maned wolves. These were, they were not, the big exhibit was condors, but we had a gillions of birds in there. We had lizards, we had iguanas in there. We had…… Read More
What was your first big development at Oklahoma City Zoo?… Read More