It was dead off a bungee cord for the servs. And, and the visitors were about 10 deep at the windows watching this rabbit getting torn into pieces by the cerebrals when they used to, when they once a week feeding in the reptile house here at London Zoo, I… Read More
And so, you know, the, the program gets augmented from, from Europe where we have been less inclined to do that. But, you know, I see issues with, I’ve been helping a couple of zoos with, with breeding and, and introduction of lions for breeding. And I’m thinking having to… Read More
How we feed our animals for the kickoff and specifically carnivores. I look at North American carnivore diets and it just makes me want to cry. I have seen an adult tiger virtually inhale, its minced meat diet. Whereas, you know, we, and you know, we’ve always fed them actual… Read More
What do you think are the major differences between zoos in North America and those in Europe?… Read More
And, and the rhino will continue to defecate on that location. I said, you know, you’ve got these rhinos you’ve soft releasing them from, from Bomas. Yes. And he went, yeah. I said, right, well then, you know, collect up all the shit and then redistribute it out. So when… Read More
You open up the books, you let them go job done others soft releases, training, training them to avoid predators. You know, the, I was involved to a degree with the Vancouver Island Marmite reintroduction breeding for reintroduction project when I was working in, in British Columbia. And, and the… Read More
Is it easy to do some species?… Read More
I think those are the ones where, you know, we, we don’t have enough information, but even reintroducing small stuff, you know, can we do it?… Read More
What’s, you know, big dangerous animal like that. Read More
How, how do we approach that?… Read More
I think the Russians have been doing some really interesting stuff with tigers that I don’t think has received the, the focus that it should, you know, reintroducing elephants or big carnivores or big primates, you know, the, the, the, the really complex ones. The ones that are more likely… Read More
If we get into that situation where, you know, we’re having to return the, the polar bears to a, a reconstituted a arctic, how do we do that?… Read More
How, how, how do you reintroduce a polar bear?… Read More
Or they had no fear of snakes. So the researchers following the radio collar of a tamarind that’s already inside a red-tailed boa, we need to, with every reintroduction there’s species specific issues. So reintroducing animals that may not need to be reintroduced, but at least if we can learn… Read More
But the latter is, is more normally the example or once where, okay, let’s find out how do we do this?… Read More
What, you know, the, the classic problems with the golden lion tamarind reintroduction where they were kept initially in enclosures where all the perching was bolted down and when they were released in, in Brazil and they touched a branch that moved, it’s like, whoa, what’s that?… Read More
What are the issues? Some examples?… Read More
I think the issue is that the list is very short or certainly a lot shorter than it should be. I remember, you know, we, if we were, if we were into an argument with a an anti zoo person, there would, it was the classic, and this would be… Read More
And I think part of it’s cultural, but I think part of it has been, there’s been a real concerted effort to make sure that that is possible. Will it continue to be so, remains to be seen. But I think, I think India’s a really interesting example. Read More
How’s this, would you say zoos or requirements have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More