Well, you’re talking about history. And I think, I like the phrase, I don’t know who said it. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it has the same rhyme. If we look back in human history, we make the same mistakes over and over again. Just different players. And so it’s… Read More
How important is it for people within the profession to be what I would call students of the game, to understand where these people are writing seminal papers?… Read More
Do you sacrifice an animal so that the species can be saved?… Read More
Yeah, in some cases you do. But we’ve, we’ve, we’ve educated the public in a way that we care about each individual animal and they’re special. And yet we wanna manage as a, you know, as a group. And so an individual’s not that important. It’s, it’s a conundrum that… Read More
You know, that, that, that’s, that’s even a tougher argument than an elephant, you know, having an orca. But if we didn’t bring orcas into captivity and SeaWorld years ago, nobody would have the respect for them that we have now. And the love for them. You know, so, so… Read More
You can’t, why sacrifice?… Read More
I’m talking, you know, hoofstock, mostly in large mammals, I think, I think that can work for certain things, other animals. It’s just not gonna work. Killer whales, you know, orcas, that, that whole SeaWorld thing and blackfish it, it, it, it’s, it was not handled right. I think there… Read More
But that said, how do you keep a orca in a tank?… Read More
I mean, what, is there a tank big enough to have a killer whale?… Read More
I think there’s definitely cases that warrant taking animals from the wild, especially rescue cases. I remember c we’re all trying to rescue walruses that had been abandoned, that were gonna die. But they have to go through so much approval process and permits the animal’s dead or, or, or,… Read More
And I think that would work better. And then those animals could go back after they have a couple, maybe they, maybe they give birth, you breed them there. And then the generation born inside the habitat, you could send those to other zoos. ’cause they’re probably better off than… Read More
Is there times when it justified to bring animals out of the wild for zoological institutions?… Read More
But that, that to me, it, to me, it’s not conservation breeding. It’s, it’s breeding So that other zoos that we have animals to, that we have animals in the future, because we’re probably not gonna be taking them out of the wild unless we, unless we can take the,… Read More
I don’t know what conservation breeding is. I don’t know what, what that term is. I don’t use that, that breeding for conservation sounds like, well, we’re breeding so we can put them back in the wild. What, what is, you know, I, I just don’t use the term, so… Read More
What do you think is the role of conservation breeding in zoo relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
That I just said. Detroit. We talked about conservation breeding. Read More
You know, if you are gonna say that we’re our standards, optimal standards of animal wellbeing, and we care about every animal at the zoo, and you turn around and shoot it in the head when it’s two years old, that’s a double standard that I don’t, I don’t think… Read More
It was a mistake, but it was a mistake. I’m glad that Denmark made it there. There was a zoo years ago in the United States, remember the director shot the CTO Honda ORs. Do you you remember that one? I think it was Detroit. And he got in a… Read More
Turns out there was, or there was one female in the group. You heard this story?… Read More
No. So they call Ray, you know, I was, I was at that point, I was, I wasn’t involved in the decision too much. I I didn’t have the decision, or it might’ve been different. And Ray said, just flush it down the toilet. It’s a hissing cockroach. We can’t… Read More