Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 512
Some of the questions now are, just what’s your opinion about these things?… Read More
Some of the questions now are, just what’s your opinion about these things?… Read More
During the time you were at St. Louis, what had you hoped to accomplish but were a unable to finish?… Read More
And I said, “Don’t feed any of the hay in that barn to any of the animals in the zoo.” Now only the stone sheep were dying but, “Don’t feed it to anything anymore.” So what about our other?… Read More
And immediately we sent off hay samples, our supplement, our grain, we sent that off to both the university and to Ralston Purina, who helped us all the time. We sent it off, you know, to be evaluated, to see what’s there. Well it didn’t take them long, and it… Read More
We changed it immediately, and of course it cleared it up. A little detective work. Read More
Did they you know, what about the feed?… Read More
You know, did we get our feed from a different supplier?” You know, “No, nobody sprayed anything. Nobody changed any of the stuff they normally clean.” I said, “Well, we gotta stop whatever we’re feeding them right now.” And you know, I thought it must be in the hay, because… Read More
Did they spray something different?… Read More
Did they, you know, did they use a different cleaner in there?… Read More
Why isn’t it doing this or that?” But one of the things that really came home was, we had these stone sheep and there was a herd, probably about 10 or 12 of them, and one died. They all looked perfectly normal, and it was just dead in the cage. Read More
And you know, I got involved with our veterinary staff. “What, I mean, this can’t be something infectious. I mean, it just doesn’t go that fast. It has to be something environmental. Read More
And they all looked, I mean, you examine them, what’s going on?… Read More
Why isn’t it eating?… Read More
“What’s wrong with this animal?” I mean usually, you know, “Why isn’t it, what’s wrong?… Read More
And I said, “Well, can’t we at least try to castrate, and see if that will change it?” Because that’s what happened at a number of zoos way back then. I mean, those things unheard of today, but that’s what was taking place. And unfortunately we were not successful in… Read More
How did you deal, if you ever did, with medical mysteries at the zoo, if you had any?… Read More
Well, I think every time you’re evaluating an animal, I mean your diagnostics, it’s a mystery. Read More
And so it’s a, open up the abdomen and get in there, to remove the testicles. And he had been successful in doing a couple of them on Asian elephants. And we, I discussed it with the veterinary school, with the anesthesiologists there, with the surgeons who did equine medicine,… Read More
And he was so aggressive that when they’d put him out in the yard, he would charge towards everything. He especially hated our security vehicle, it would throw, I mean we couldn’t have him on display. He would throw his feces at all the visitors, and broke a couple of… Read More
And the director had already made the decision to euthanize that animal, ’cause we couldn’t get rid of it otherwise, you know?… Read More