Well, parents will always get upset, ’cause I would tell them, you need to get a college degree. Don’t worry about grades. Your grades don’t matter. You need the degree. I mean, ’cause we’ve hired people who had C’s and D’s, but they were interested in the work. Get experience… Read More
What do you tell a young person in college, as you were, who has what appears to be a sincere and realistic interest in a zoo career study, what work, read what?… Read More
It can be working as a vet, it can be working with animal control. And I had to keeper at the National Zoo who left keeping to work animal control. And in Washington, DC, which was a much harder job than being a zoo keeper at National Zoo, but she… Read More
Oh no, it was, the job was what you made it. I mean, I made sure that everybody knew what I was doing. I mean, we had meetings, well, and Andy is the one who came up with the sterilization idea. And we went to Bruce and said, well, we… Read More
What would you say is your proudest accomplishment that you succeeded in doing?… Read More
I liked, the deer project was a lot of fun. I think that was good and no, Cornell later. They tried to get SIU interested and they weren’t interested in doing it. But someone from Cornell contacted me after I retired and he was doing a project up in Cornell… Read More
I mean, it’s not really a, it’s not really the department, I mean, it was the police department doing it. I mean, George was wonderful to work with, (laughing) but out trapping deer was not what he wanted to do. So yeah, so that was my big research project. And… Read More
I mean, we did a presentation at St. Louis at a wildlife conference for all the local wildlife guys. And it’s the only time I’ve ever been to a conference where I just sailed into the ladies’ room and there’s a line to get into the men’s room. The only… Read More
Did you feel that when you were, and the deer as an example, did you feel that when you were a curator, that within the scope of your job, you had freedom to kinda define your job and decide what you wanted to do or was your job very structured?… Read More
Well, research is part of, I mean, research is usually related to conservation or, I mean, research to solve a problem. I mean, my research was with white-tailed deer, as you know. Read More
I mean, we had too many deer at the zoo and people would come in, maybe say, well, we found this baby deer out there, you know, what are you gonna do about it?… Read More
And Andy Teare was the vet at the time and we started, we did a deer sterilization program, worked beautifully. So, you know, that’s when I started working with the wildlife, local wildlife people and so we, you know, we had the same, we radio-tracked the deer at the zoo,… Read More
In terms of what research?… Read More
I mean, there’s all sorts of research. Well, I mean the tenant sometimes of zoos is they’re about conservation, education and research. Read More
What roles do you see the zoo in that area?… Read More
I haven’t given that any thought. I think what zoos, with Milwaukee, I think integrating national and international conservation in with what the zoo is doing. I think that’s important. They’re not separate. Everything is, it’s all part and parcel. It’s not, you know, World Wildlife Fund. I mean, I… Read More
So I think international organizations can, I don’t know whether they even look, send your researchers to the zoo that has that animal, so they can see the animal up close and, you know, find out what questions you have. If you’re looking at the bonobo up in the tree,… Read More
We’ve talked about conservation and education and what role do you see zoos playing in research?… Read More
I don’t know. I mean, I like ZooLex. I go on on ZooLex website to see what, I mean, there are some innovative things being done in zoos. And so just keep abreast of what’s going on. I think it really is, most of the smaller zoos end up closing… Read More
What issues would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More