I mean, it’s just, there’s so many things. I can’t even begin to express how much fun I had. To have clouded leopards over Christmas. You’re taking care of clouded leopard cubs over Christmas, and bottle feeding ’em, and all the kids are there, and they’re inviting their friends over… Read More
Who gets to rescue elephants from Botswana?… Read More
Who gets to swim with the sharks?… Read More
It’s a wonderful wonderful profession. I was blessed to be able to say that I’ve worked in zoos for 40 years. A, 40 years is unheard of. But B, to be able to have the opportunity to be blessed, to have had the opportunity to know the animals up close,… Read More
Who gets to fly around and dart elephants out of a helicopter?… Read More
What do I know about the profession?… Read More
But you never see ’em displayed like that. We always display ’em, and they’re boring. They’re not interesting. And they’re so cool when they’re flying. Now you’ve been in this profession a long time. Mhm. Read More
What do you know about the profession that you devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
What do you know about- How did that happen?… Read More
A bat exhibit, of all things, right?… Read More
And it is so cool. Read More
So it was always awful. The only thing we didn’t do well in that exhibit was we should have put in like 10 times the ventilation that we did, ’cause you can smell it. And we actually have a graphic that says, “What’s that smell?” And it’s because they’re fruit… Read More
The color of the rock compliments the color of the bear so well that you really see the bear. And we have seven different viewing windows on that exhibit, and an underground tunnel, so you can go under the water and see the polar bears. And one of my favorite… Read More
That’s one of the best exhibits in the country that I’ve seen. And ironically, one of my favorite exhibits that we built is the bat exhibit in Kids’ Kingdom. Now, most of the time you go to a zoo, and you see the bats, and they’re in this one area,… Read More
There’s a cave over here and a cave over here, and in the middle there’s nothing they can grab a hold of. So they fly from point A to point B.” And I said, “Well, how do you get ’em to fly like that?” And they said, “Well, we put… Read More
And I think they’ve changed that since then, but all the rock work’s black. So in the summer months, they couldn’t have the polar bears out there, because it’s too hot. It absorbs all that heat and it’s too hot. The bears couldn’t be out there in the summer months. Read More
And then we came back to the house and designed ours. And I think the exhibit is an above ground exhibit, of course, and we studied, we had a person on our design team that was very into color. He’s a professional photographer. And I hired him as our director… Read More
What was your proudest animal exhibit achievement?… Read More
I think one of my favorite exhibits at the zoo is our polar bear exhibit, which we built and opened, oh, probably six years ago. And it’s a beautiful, we spent a lot of time going to all this. The nicest thing about zoos is that we’re one big family. Read More
Oh gosh, they’re all so unique. I mean we, over the course of my 31 years, transformed, we literally rebuilt 95% of the zoo. 95% of the zoo. There’s four acres left that I hadn’t gotten finished. But other than that, 95% of the zoo we rebuilt in 31 years. Read More