Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 351
How diverse was your workforce?… Read More
How diverse was your workforce?… Read More
Well one of the things, most when I first started, it was almost all men, with only a few women. We had a fairly, a good representation of minorities, in St. Louis, African Americans. I always figure if you can kinda mimic what the general population is, and we had… Read More
Women certainly much more represented today. It’s gotta be, maybe more than 50% now of women keepers in the zoo. And it’s just times have changed. In terms of veterinary medicine, when I was in veterinary school, we had 60 students, three women, 57 men. Today, 80% of veterinary students… Read More
You mentioned really early on there were women keepers, but that was in the children’s zoo. Read More
Were there women, when did women keepers start to come, or African American keepers?… Read More
In the employees that were taking care of the animals, how diverse were your employees?… Read More
And it’s open. You know unfortunately, we’ve had to have somebody monitoring the area all the time, because people were putting their hands in with, you know, they could grab a penguin if they wanted to. And so it makes for a much more intimate experience, I think, for the… Read More
It’s 40 degrees in there, and so the visitor comes in, they’re immediately impressed by how cold it is, you know?… Read More
And, “Oh my gosh,” the architect, “we didn’t even think about that. Read More
And, but we looked at all kinds of things as far as that was concerned, for the hippos. But the Penguin Puffin, we had an old penguin facility that was behind glass, and it just doesn’t, our new Penguin Puffin, you know, it’s open. Read More
We just built it where it fit,” you know?… Read More
Where are you gonna get this reflection off?… Read More
Where’s the sun gonna come?… Read More
Where are you gonna be, you know?… Read More
And a lot of them had some really interesting stuff. I mean, when we were building the River’s Edge, where we had underwater viewing of hippos, you gotta have a super filtration system to keep that clean. And again, we looked at a couple of really good ones. Busch Gardens… Read More
And I mean, we would always go to other zoos, and I always went to lots of other zoos to get ideas, and try to find out what worked and what didn’t work, why it worked, you know?… Read More
Well, how did they position it, you know?… Read More
Well, I think you wanna see the animal in, you know, of course exhibit design has evolved in zoos over the years, from the sterile cage that from a veterinary standpoint, you might be able to sterilize this thing and keep anything away. It’s a lot different if they’re out… Read More
What exhibits are you really proud of?… Read More
Well some of them, I mean, River’s Edge was one that the landscaping has really made the difference. Read More