Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 540
Do you think zoos and aquariums need to, are more involved with animal welfare as a group?… Read More
Do you think zoos and aquariums need to, are more involved with animal welfare as a group?… Read More
Do you just reward the kid every time for whatever they do?… Read More
Definitely. So animal wellbeing is a, I guess is the term that they use now. But, you know, Terry Maple was a big, he led the charge on that a lot. I think sometimes we, we make assumptions about animals though. Like we handle them with kit gloves and we… Read More
They don’t know how to answer that. We talked about animal rights, animal welfare. Read More
I I think many of my colleagues that are still directors, if I say, are you having fun right now?… Read More
You know, you came in late 10 times, we’ve warned you now you come in late and now you’re gonna be fired because you just, it just doesn’t sink in. So dealing with people as, as you get promoted to more supervisory positions, you get more alienated from the animals… Read More
And you go, why, why did you do that?… Read More
I said, the human. I said, I said, the animals aren’t always looking to change. They’re creatures of habit. Don’t change too much. You know, unless it’s for the good, you know. But, but people, the more you give ’em, the more they want. Sometimes the, when you have 400… Read More
What, what was the most challenging animal?… Read More
What’d you mean?… Read More
I’ve had so many people come up and says, wow, you know, you, you’ve, you’ve worked with all these animals. Read More
And, and being a good leader means NBWA management by walking around. You’ve said the difficulty is always the people, not the animals. Read More
And they weren’t, they weren’t, the board didn’t think they were at the zoo enough. So you have to be, it’s a, it’s a balance. And I’ve seen zoo directors that do a good job and then the new chair, chairman of the board comes in and says, I don’t… Read More
I think it’s important, first of all, for their own psyche. If you’re gonna sit in your desk all the time and just be in meetings all the time and worry about things, you are gonna get depressed. You’re not gonna enjoy your job. Nobody sees you. No. You know,… Read More
Now you had alluded before, how important is it for the zoo director to make rounds?… Read More
You know, but, but you gotta be careful because you can’t throw somebody under the bus when you don’t know what, what they, the, the variables, the constraints that they had to deal with. When I left Disney, they said, you built holding areas too small. I said, I built… Read More
Like Lee Eke came after me and he made that zoo incredible. The Houston Zoo. ’cause ’cause we, we built a platform for him and we had donor base, but then Lee took it to the next level and that, that’s what you want. Read More
Why didn’t you, why didn’t you fix this before?… Read More
And, and then why did we have, how, how come the old guy was so bad?… Read More
What, what was wrong with the old?… Read More