Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 324
So you had one lot, right?… Read More
So you had one lot, right?… Read More
That, that, okay, how rare are tigers?… Read More
Do you have any secret, if you do, of getting people to read educational messages?… Read More
Are we talking about, are we talking about staff or the general public or general public. General public. I, I, I mean, I think as we, as we mentioned before about, you know, the, when people have come up with creative approaches, you know, be it the, you know, the,… Read More
Just ’cause you’re working with the animals. Just that bit more up close. We, we talked a little about educational messages. Read More
You might not be able to articulate it, but you’ll be able to know when’s a good day and when’s a bad day?… Read More
There’s a, a classic bit of video on YouTube of a keeper being attacked by a bull reindeer. And it’s an, it’s an ideal video for how not to deal with this situation. You know? And those videos are my favorite. ’cause I think they’re the most important learning tools. Read More
You just were able to read it. Read More
If someone asked you like, why, why not today?… Read More
Got to the door, came out, what’s wrong? What’s wrong?… Read More
He said, you idiot, you were in there with one of the hyenas. He said, no, I wasn’t. I said, yeah, I saw it. He said, no, I was in there with all three of them at Dudley Zoo. It was routine to work in with a spot at hyenas. Read More
When an actual fact to those of us who have grown up in that climate where manual restraint, where, where in the days where you might not have trusted the vet to knock it out, because, you know, there wasn’t a lot of zoo vets around with real experience. And… Read More
And that dealing with a lot of animals, you know, you can look at the zoo profession and the range of species that keepers routinely work in with now compared to what we used to work in with. And it varied from zoo to zoo. I remember when I was… Read More
You know, always look at them sideways. And we got them all into the routine. The idea of working in with baboons these days would probably, you know, keepers would, would, you know, fall down in fear, the idea. ’cause they, they, they’re, they don’t know how to do it. Read More
Why do you feel there was this loss of practical skills for zookeepers?… Read More
I mean, we’ve, we’ve, you know, touched on the fact that, you know, a keeper’s ability or lack of ability to use manual restraint, you know, either with a net or, you know, even just hand grabbing, you know, certain animals, you know, I’m certainly not advocating physically restraining adult… Read More
Should, should I be this surprised that no one has ever taught about death?… Read More
In, in, we’ve talked about training a bit, and you’ve indicated that it was very important that you felt there was a loss of practical skills. Read More
And ’cause to my, I mean, I should have realized this, but you know, I was just really surprised that no one was talking about it. But then when I thought about it, well, you know, if zoos aren’t prepared, they’re barely able prepared to talk about, you know, euthanasia… Read More
Whatever, if an animal is getting old or getting sick, you know, how do you, how do you be part of that, that decision making process as to whether the animal should be euthanized on, on health grounds or welfare grants. And so it was actually to get people to… Read More