Interview 21409 – Caption Index: 687
What do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
And it is so cool. Read More
So it was always awful. The only thing we didn’t do well in that exhibit was we should have put in like 10 times the ventilation that we did, ’cause you can smell it. And we actually have a graphic that says, “What’s that smell?” And it’s because they’re fruit… Read More
A bat exhibit, of all things, right?… Read More
The color of the rock compliments the color of the bear so well that you really see the bear. And we have seven different viewing windows on that exhibit, and an underground tunnel, so you can go under the water and see the polar bears. And one of my favorite… Read More
There’s a cave over here and a cave over here, and in the middle there’s nothing they can grab a hold of. So they fly from point A to point B.” And I said, “Well, how do you get ’em to fly like that?” And they said, “Well, we put… Read More
That’s one of the best exhibits in the country that I’ve seen. And ironically, one of my favorite exhibits that we built is the bat exhibit in Kids’ Kingdom. Now, most of the time you go to a zoo, and you see the bats, and they’re in this one area,… Read More
And I think they’ve changed that since then, but all the rock work’s black. So in the summer months, they couldn’t have the polar bears out there, because it’s too hot. It absorbs all that heat and it’s too hot. The bears couldn’t be out there in the summer months. Read More
And then we came back to the house and designed ours. And I think the exhibit is an above ground exhibit, of course, and we studied, we had a person on our design team that was very into color. He’s a professional photographer. And I hired him as our director… Read More
What was your proudest animal exhibit achievement?… Read More
I think one of my favorite exhibits at the zoo is our polar bear exhibit, which we built and opened, oh, probably six years ago. And it’s a beautiful, we spent a lot of time going to all this. The nicest thing about zoos is that we’re one big family. Read More
Oh gosh, they’re all so unique. I mean we, over the course of my 31 years, transformed, we literally rebuilt 95% of the zoo. 95% of the zoo. There’s four acres left that I hadn’t gotten finished. But other than that, 95% of the zoo we rebuilt in 31 years. Read More
I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m gonna try. And so, she said, “Oh, sure, we can help you.” And she helped us. And we were able to successfully, in six months time, rescue those animals and bring them here. Without her help, it would’ve never happened. Without their… Read More
We need to be able to bring new animals into our stock of animals, and be able to change the bloodlines of our animals so they don’t become inbred and have problems along the way. And so we need these folks as part of our business. We do need to… Read More
Without them, we would not have the animals we have in our zoos today. And yet now they’re kinda shunned and cast aside. And we’re gonna need ’em. We’re constantly transporting animals in zoos. We’re constantly bringing animals. And as we get more global in our efforts, we’re bringing animals… Read More
And ask her, can you help me?… Read More
As usual, right?… Read More
I need help, I have no clue what I’m doing, but I said I would try to do it. I have no clue what I’m doing. Read More
And so AZA called us and asked us to rescue these animals. Well, I don’t know how to move animals from Africa to here. I have no clue. Read More
I hadn’t a clue. So I called Holly Hunt, wonderful, wonderful person, great person, Holly Hunt, who is part of International Animal Exchange, who, in the old days would be called an animal dealer, animal mover, and a transport company. Read More