Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 289
What do you think the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other types of conservation activities?… Read More
What do you think the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other types of conservation activities?… Read More
Is it the main focus?… Read More
He’d always sleep with his tongue hanging out and everybody knew Boomer, you know?… Read More
The kids that would come in for their trips. Oh, it’s Boomer! Well when we had to end up putting him down because of his age and some of the complications that he was having, it was very sad. But we tried – one of the saddest days of my… Read More
They offered to us, because neighbors, to let us put Boomer there. So we had an actual funeral basically. Did press release, invited people if they wanted to come, sent our thing to all our board members and we had a little service for Boomer. But I think those things…… Read More
And it would be going on with them to say okay. Read More
And the newspapers and saying we’re gonna have to put this animal down, you know?… Read More
And it’s very sad for us. Especially if it was a high profile one. We had a lion named Boomer who had come – when we built the new Lion’s Trace, you know, he came in and I used to play with him on the kitchen floor. You know, at… Read More
For surplus animals. Read More
Why is it a difficult position for a zoo to have to decide that?… Read More
Luckily we didn’t have to do it for surplus at the time, but I’ve been gone for 15 years. We had to euthanize some animals. Either due to health or age. Or a combination thereof. And. That one took a lot of working with the press. And again, education programs… Read More
Well hopefully they’re getting better at not having as many surplus through the breeding of who can breed and who cannot breed. But. There’s still gonna be that fine line of what to do with the animals that aren’t in the breeding programs. And hopefully there’s some… Other facilities. Maybe… Read More
But it’s a hard question. You mentioned before. Euthanasia. And. Read More
Why do you think – did you ever have to consider that as director?… Read More
How do you think zoos need to deal with surplus animals?… Read More
How do – say that one again?… Read More
How do zoos need to deal with surplus animals?… Read More
It’s not just run by the seat of your pants anymore and do what you can to make your money and then go somewhere else. Now you have to work in that education and the conservation. In addition to just the “fun times” and the recreation. But yeah, some of… Read More
Did your zoo deal with animal dealers?… Read More
Back in the day. We did. We would have one or two. And that was before I was director, and actually some of it before I was curator too, so we had some animals come in and we had one guy that we had always worked with that would bring… Read More