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
And, and two, I know my CEOI can’t blame him at the time, looked at our budget, said, can we commit, can we build what’s proper that we think will make good welfare?… Read More
The heck with the public’s perception on that. I’m gonna educate them about that. And the other thing is, let’s look at elephant populations throughout Africa. There’s only a few countries where they’re safe and where the populations are big. And the rest of ’em, you know, without people like… Read More
Getting close to the same. But what they heard was elephants need to walk 60 miles and they, they get this, they get to this age and that’s not happening in zoos. And that influences them. And so we got scared. And again, because we weren’t willing to launch a… Read More
Well, how old are elephants living in zoos?… Read More
But how many actually do, what’s the average life expectancy?… Read More
What’s the average life expectancy of elephants of the wild?… Read More
Well, it’s about 47, 50 years, not 60. Read More
Why they didn’t? Yeah, I thought they had, since I’ve left, you know, the big survey they did and the results of that as to the best way to manage elephants for welfare as well as for potential reproductions, whether it’s Asian or African, we learned a lot. But I,… Read More
It’s like killer whales. We, we, we just, the public got influenced by misinformation. Elephants live to be 60 years old. They don’t do that in zoos. Well, humans can live to be 115, 120. Read More
My question, why did zoos not implement a major elephant national breeding program, in your opinion?… Read More
But I am worried that we will reach a point and look at climate change. I mean they, they’re saying right now that if we stopped all carbon emissions right now, the climate would still take two or 300 years to change to begin to get back to where it… Read More
Well, there are still places people call wilderness, but we manage it. I mean, if you didn’t have a manager out there doing things like prescribed burns and stuff like that, because of its isolation, because of our development, whether it’s agriculture, city highways or whatever, it, it’s very tough… Read More
So what’s left has to be looked at and managed to an extent in order to keep it to where it can support what wildlife’s left down there. So there are very little left, but there’s some oceans, they go, oh my god, ocean’s a, you know, vast environment. We’re… Read More
Well, I think if they’re in an institution, they’re earning their keep, whether they’re ambassador animal or not, they bring people in and, and it’s driving the visitation that, you know, provides the funding and, and allows development people to build a donor base that you need. It’s what we… Read More
Do animals need to earn their keep?… Read More
So Is there a wild out there or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into manage wild zoos?… Read More
That back exhibit is what supports your breeding program, supports your research program, and allows you to really manipulate and manage the, the specimens that are involved in your exhibit. And zoos, boards, directors, whoever, they don’t wanna put the same amount of time and money into the back area… Read More
And I kept my exhibit going. We had some breeding out there, but I was able to manipulate it in the back. And you don’t find that kind of commitment to spending those dollars that you should to support those programs. You allow, you alluded to the ambassador analyst. Read More
You put a lot of money in that front exhibit. Read More