Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 424
Or events at the Oklahoma City Zoo? Is that what you?… Read More
Or events at the Oklahoma City Zoo? Is that what you?… Read More
Well, effected zoos, but obviously, affected- Gosh, I think that we had… The problem of pairing rare animals up. We’d have maybe a herd. I had about eight sable antelope, and I needed a new male. They were beginning to, we were about to have some inbreeding, and I didn’t… Read More
And they’re a beautiful antelope. And we already had about a 10-acre area that we were gonna set up for African belt. But we lost three years on that, just that one problem of not having a breeding male. So that’s when we started a policy of having two groups… Read More
And of course, then the Oklahoma City Zoo?… Read More
Well, the first to answer the what affected?… Read More
Major events. Major events that affected the zoos. Read More
We really proselytized it. We had a few people, but not enough. And there were many problems, research problems that we identified. We sent that thing out and we had a response, but not enough. And I had a curator of research that the universities, both of them paid half… Read More
We replaced him with a guy who had, was excellent behavioral experience and all that. Once he got there, all he did was trap mice for a taxonomic study. Read More
During your career, what would you consider to be major events that affected zoos in general?… Read More
And it was invaluable. Now, I tried to do the same thing with research. That was a form of research, what I just described. But research on I would hope behavioral, and maybe some taxonomic. I had the university, both universities were on this animal research council. And we would,… Read More
I mean, it was knocking the gorilla down, and taking it in to x-ray it or something. Or you know, how the things you get. And you need equipment and you need help from these outside people who are specialists. I had a TB guy that’d read every x-ray we… Read More
And I had a student on a little, we had our own scholarship. And she stayed with, she went there every day. She loved dogs anyway. And she was there every day for about three or four months observing that litter, and seeing if any of them, if they all… Read More
How important was science and research to Oklahoma City?… Read More
In one area it was excellent. Every zoo needs medical help. When I got there, we needed equipment, we needed specialists. And we didn’t, we had one vet, excellent vet. One of the best things about that vet was he could ask for help from an MD, and they would… Read More
And we have a veterinary school just 40 miles away. And we had the dean of that and all that. This group, we would feed them once a month. They met on the same day of the month. They didn’t just eat. And we also gave them a little to… Read More
There were other more educational experiences that I had. Read More
I took the appraiser over there. He said, “You want the whole thing appraised?” I said, “No, I want the part. I just want half of it appraised. Because you know, I’m gonna have to buy half, and the Feds are gonna buy half.” “Okay, which one do you?” “I… Read More
What happened with that evolution of bringing the zoo up, was that such a difficult thing?… Read More
You have to fight a lot of battles to get all that land?… Read More
Just had to work the bureaucracy, and then go out and work the BRO, both of those would give you half of the price. And it was well known, I mean, I’m not gonna tell anything that’s out of, it was common practice, I learned it. That if, for instance,… Read More