And by the time they’re done, they go, well, you know, I walked a mile and a half and I saw two active animals. So when you design an exhibit, if you can look at, not so much the fact that it’s a great artificial environment, but it’s, it’s an… Read More
The schools love it, you know, it has great value, but it’s difficult in how to capture them. The passive visitor on a daily basis, especially where they’ve got the stroller and it’s a crowded day and their kids are screaming ’cause they want ice cream and they’re trying to… Read More
How do you try and achieve a wow impact in exhibit design?… Read More
Greatest way of development. Read More
What has been the greatest area of development in the way that zoos have interpreted their collections to the visitors?… Read More
We were talking about signage before. Yeah. Well, you know, that’s, that’s been, that’s been a debated subject for a long time. And, and like I said, there’s been a number of surveys that have been done to see how people react to our interpretive graphics and what we, what… Read More
I would like to see more a sister relationship with like Ang Mai or some of the Chinese zoos would’ve helped us with the Pangolin consortium. Now we dealt with African penguins, but their information, their technology, their way of caring for the Asian pangolins they were successful with, we… Read More
What would you say had been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
My insurance is gonna go way up. So again, it was a, a budget constraint. It give them the cost of, of operating a zoo. Now, utility costs, gas costs unfortunately and other things, it, it’s a burden to a certain extent. Read More
And the, the CEO and the board has to look at it and say, are we willing to make that commitment?… Read More
You know, I have to insure them while they’re over there. Read More
If something happens, you know, what’s, what’s gonna be the deal?… Read More
And you know, the one thing I ran across the most was my, my institutions would look at it and go, what’s my insurance cost?… Read More
Yeah, again, I think it’s a matter of cost and commitment and budget. You know, when, when you’re spending tons of money building big, huge exhibits and you’ve got maintenance additive costs that you’re doing, you gotta look at where your budget’s at and how much you can commit. Because… Read More
Is it successful? It may be successful in maintaining the species out there, but is the, is the C Puerto Rican toad expanding and living on its own without the supplemental things?… Read More
Why don’t war zoos have sisters zoo relationships, import Sister zoo relationships, like outside of the country?… Read More
I don’t know that. So I say there’s a few out there that are successful, but I don’t know that the majority of them are without real continued management in the field of these releases. And that’s a tough thing to do. You know, it takes a lot of money. Read More
How successful do you think zoos or aquariums have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
Well, there’s a few success stories that we know of Black-footed fair. I don’t know that the Puerto Rican toad is successful. I mean, when I was at the zoo, we, we sent like 23,000 over the years I was there. Puerto Crested total, it’s back to Puerto Rico. I… Read More
And we said, no, we can’t right now. Let’s get ’em outta here. And a lot of zoos did that. I love the idea that, you know, these people go send ’em to the sanctuary. Well I know a couple sanctuaries, they don’t have the veterinarian care that they should. Read More