I’m talking, you know, hoofstock, mostly in large mammals, I think, I think that can work for certain things, other animals. It’s just not gonna work. Killer whales, you know, orcas, that, that whole SeaWorld thing and blackfish it, it, it, it’s, it was not handled right. I think there… Read More
And I think that would work better. And then those animals could go back after they have a couple, maybe they, maybe they give birth, you breed them there. And then the generation born inside the habitat, you could send those to other zoos. ’cause they’re probably better off than… Read More
Is there times when it justified to bring animals out of the wild for zoological institutions?… Read More
I think there’s definitely cases that warrant taking animals from the wild, especially rescue cases. I remember c we’re all trying to rescue walruses that had been abandoned, that were gonna die. But they have to go through so much approval process and permits the animal’s dead or, or, or,… Read More
But that, that to me, it, to me, it’s not conservation breeding. It’s, it’s breeding So that other zoos that we have animals to, that we have animals in the future, because we’re probably not gonna be taking them out of the wild unless we, unless we can take the,… Read More
I don’t know what conservation breeding is. I don’t know what, what that term is. I don’t use that, that breeding for conservation sounds like, well, we’re breeding so we can put them back in the wild. What, what is, you know, I, I just don’t use the term, so… Read More
That I just said. Detroit. We talked about conservation breeding. Read More
What do you think is the role of conservation breeding in zoo relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
You know, if you are gonna say that we’re our standards, optimal standards of animal wellbeing, and we care about every animal at the zoo, and you turn around and shoot it in the head when it’s two years old, that’s a double standard that I don’t, I don’t think… Read More
It was a mistake, but it was a mistake. I’m glad that Denmark made it there. There was a zoo years ago in the United States, remember the director shot the CTO Honda ORs. Do you you remember that one? I think it was Detroit. And he got in a… Read More
No. So they call Ray, you know, I was, I was at that point, I was, I wasn’t involved in the decision too much. I I didn’t have the decision, or it might’ve been different. And Ray said, just flush it down the toilet. It’s a hissing cockroach. We can’t… Read More
Turns out there was, or there was one female in the group. You heard this story?… Read More
Re a perfectly healthy animal. I remember at Disney we had a, a, we, we, we would not at that point in it euthanize an any animal. If it was, it was just for convenience. So Ray Mendez sends us these hissing cockroaches. He sends us all males. Read More
Does everybody draw the line on when you can euthanize an animal just for management?… Read More
So again, you know, at what level do you draw?… Read More
There’s plenty of places they could have sent that giraffe and they could have, but they wanted to make a point. But I know, I think that point backfired on them. Read More
You bet your ass. It does, but it depends on the, it, you know, we all have a different level of tolerance. Some it’s okay to euthanize fish and insects. Okay, others, you know, you go a little higher. But when you get to a giraffe or an elephant or… Read More
You know, how could they, how, how could they do it?… Read More
That’s just not right. You, you have to, but you have to build that into your budget to begin with. Because when it comes to that point, you didn’t budget for it. You said, well, I, well, yeah, that’s your own damn fault because you, you knew this was gonna… Read More
Does euthanizing of endangered species still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More