At that time, Amon Carter had died. His son was on my board, but he was not like his father. I mean, he was just, he was very interested in the zoo, but he didn’t really understand what he needed to do. Kirk Johnson was dead. I got a deal,… Read More
Oh yeah, why did we build a herpetarium?… Read More
Why was that high on my list?… Read More
Number one, we didn’t have a reptile exhibit. We needed one. If we’re gonna show animals, reptiles, well, I don’t have to tell you this. We got vertebrate animals, birds, reptiles, and fishes and mammals. And so a major, a major taxon was missing from the zoo. Number two, though,… Read More
My interest in this, it was a herpetarium, by the way. You have to call it by it’s correct name. I made that name up, by the way. Obviously, I wanted a large reptile exhibit for my own interest. Also though, when we built this aquarium, Mark, we charged admission… Read More
We made a deal with the park department, ’cause they were over the zoo, that any money that we earned at the zoo stayed at the zoo. It didn’t have to go to the city hall. Someone told me to do that, and I think it was Robert Bean, I’m… Read More
He and Roger hated each other. But anyway, that’s kind of the territory. The idea that… I’m sorry, I’ve gotten off on these tangents. Talking about the aquarium. Read More
Oh, yes! I always, that was, that’s the big disappointment, though, in my zoo career. I did a lot to try to get research going. I could get somebody to come in, you know, zoologists, professors usually, and send students down. We even got, when I was at Portland, we… Read More
What was the process?… Read More
Why was it important to build it, because of your interest?… Read More
And here was a chance to learn, really learn something about a very important animal, an animal that we had in the zoo. And we wanted to learn more. And some of that was ivory towers. Some of it was just plain, pure science. But a lot of it was… Read More
It’s a biology. And if you have any sense at all, you can apply a lot of that information to the husbandry of your animal, the nutrition and to its educational value. So that’s why we gave money to that. Read More
Was research important to you at the zoo?… Read More
We did some psychological research, behavioral. Read More
Why was that important?… Read More
Why? Because we didn’t know anything about the animals. We didn’t know anything about half the animals. I mean, we knew what they were, taxonomically. Nutritionally, we were always on thin water. We’d do things that would work for 50 years, but that’s not knowing anything about nutrition. That’s just… Read More
Who were they?… Read More
People that were working on rhino research. Read More
Did you do rhino research?… Read More
You talking about black rhino, why was it important that you sponsor the black rhinoceros research by Garvin McCain and George Stepner?… Read More