Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 484
Why do more zoos do you think, have sister zoo relationships?… Read More
Why do more zoos do you think, have sister zoo relationships?… Read More
I don’t know. I think that, Do you have one with, were you I don’t, I don’t remember that we did. Read More
Well I found that in, in general, there’s just something my grandfather taught me is just the best policy is to be honest and open about things. Not to cover things up, listen to people, give ’em a chance to contribute if they can give ’em a pat on the… Read More
Did you, was there any important piece of advice you received that stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
You talked about the zoo biology program. Read More
Well they, they were the least fun, the personnel issues. They, they were always a pain, a pain in the neck to deal with. Not all of ’em. I mean, some things could be solved fairly, fairly easily, but when you had dissent within the organization, that sort of thing,… Read More
And we talked about out when, when you were at Front Royal and again running the organizations, what, what were, and we may have hit this, but what were some of the harder administrative decisions you had to make?… Read More
Was it personnel issues as opposed to animal issues?… Read More
So he was always the first author on those things. I was a co-author, but I, I considered that to be an, an important contribution to the literature, was channeling his information into the written word so other people had access to it. Read More
And probably the most important thing I did is I took Dr. Krishnamurti and helped him put to print all of his knowledge about Elephant management. Well, not all of it, but a lot of it. So there is a, now an archive of his dissertations on tape about how… Read More
So yeah, I was gonna say, speaking of good elephant management, in your professional opinion, what is your view regarding zoos, maintaining elephants and how it should be done correctly based on your vast experience?… Read More
It’s been a while since he lived in and managed elephants there, but it was based on a very, you know, elephant management in South Asia. The roots go back really far in time to the Mogul Empire in India. And, and a lot of the command language uses words… Read More
Well, I think if you give them plenty of space where there’s natural forage, there’ll be happier animals. It, it’s more natural for them to exist under those conditions than on cement floors with bars, even if you do let ’em out into a, a lot or a yard that… Read More
And, but I also paid for one veterinarian there to collect data on elephant culture, el domestic elephant culture in Burma. And we found out that the much vaunted old traditions of the Mahut or the Uzi they call it in Burma, growing old with his elephant is a dream… Read More
Well, the obvious difference is we don’t have the control and the use of the funds and the execution of a plan in the wild as much as we do in captivity because we’re working in our own country, in our own institutions. So we can control those variables ourselves… Read More
What do you say?… Read More
Well, regarding elephants, when a zoo spends multi-millions of dollars On A elephant of tiger exhibit it critic says, why that money is that for used for animals in the wild?… Read More
So it was basically a numerical score that you would assign, assign by looking at various parts of the body and grading them on the amount of body fat contour differentiation, that sort of thing in those characters. So that was something else that came outta that project. That’s pretty… Read More
And I think I’ve listened to those tapes now this last winter I listened to ’em ’cause I’m digitizing those tapes. One of the things I realized is that there was the, it was very complicated subject and it needed to have some validation of techniques to prove that what… Read More
And I was fascinated by the hoot tiger relationship. And I started to read Kipling’s stories about mahuts and I realized that Kipling knew a lot about elephant ma mahut relations, where he had a good imagination and was making stuff up. So I started paying more and more attention… Read More