Oh no we, of course all the time were shipping animals, and taking animals in, and different times, well we worked with whatever the zoo was. One of the gorillas, I accompanied the gorilla to, we were shipping it, I think that was onbound to the San Diego Zoo. And… Read More
There was a chimp and gorilla in a plane?… Read More
Now these things are in plastic bags, but they were clear plastic, so you could see through them. But they’re in bags, and you could hear people. Read More
What happened to the,” you know?… Read More
“Oh, did that die in the, you know, in the crash?… Read More
Well, here’s a peacock in the trunk, you know?… Read More
A full peacock that was supposed to get, I was taking it to the vet school to do the necropsies and so forth. Read More
And then we had a snow leopard in there, you know?… Read More
Anyway, so then finally they’re turning it over, and the police are there and the people are all around. And you know, they’re gonna tow the car away, so I gotta get my stuff out of there. Open up the trunk. Read More
I don’t think anybody got hurt, ’cause I’m the only one that was in the car,” you know?… Read More
“Bill, Bill,” he says, “did you see what happened?… Read More
I was already falling asleep on the highway. Well, then you just end up on the shoulder. Well, here I fell asleep again, ran into this telephone pole, knocked out the power, all the houses around, I don’t know how many miles, but certainly all around there. Make a loud… Read More
Did anybody get hurt?” I says, “Well no, I didn’t see what happened. Read More
Oh, a hellbender is a salamander. It’s a large, you know, salamander, and it’s the Ozark hellbender that we’re talking about, that is, you know, I’m not sure what its status is, whether it’s threatened, endangered, or what, the Ozark hellbender in Missouri streams. And it was certainly less and… Read More
There was an accident at the university?… Read More
Oh, well the accident was not at the university. It was in my own, when I, in the first years there, I mean, I guess I’m a workaholic, ’cause I would work late all the time. And when I first there, I was learning everything, and just getting, as the… Read More
So I don’t know that we have acquired new things over the years, that many new species. We’re always changing a little bit, but it’s dependent mostly on, you know, endangered species. We don’t deal too much with the, you know, you gotta have some things there, but we concentrate… Read More
Just a quick, can you explain what a hellbender is?… Read More
He’d go down to the bottom of the pool and lay on top of the grate so they couldn’t drain the pool. You know, it’d take hours to drain the pool. I mean, it was just such a neat animal to work with. So just different things like that kinda… Read More
Oh well, the zoo acquired, you know, we were centers for reproduction of some. Speke’s gazelle was one that we did a lot of, and we had, at one point I think, all but two of the Speke’s gazelles in captivity, and was getting down to the, you know. So… Read More