That’s all ultimately my biggest concern. We were years ago, and I think the zoo aquarium community, a ZA is still propagating portilla snails, tiny snail found in South Pacific islands. One island specifically that is that natural population’s been all but decimated by an introduced larger snail. The largest… Read More
Africa has a tremendous diversity of sick lids. Matter of fact, they’re called the, the aquatic version of Darwin’s finches type of thing in their diversification to fill various niches in Lake Victoria. We’ve had great success in breeding all kinds of cyclics. The problem is the the lake is… Read More
Great question. To answer the second part, is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More
Our efforts in education, were all over the board as is in azu or aquarium. And matter of fact, it’s, it’s, it’s got its own section in the accreditation inspection about your educational efforts and the type of programs you have. I think it’s incumbent upon us that if we… Read More
Yeah, you talked about breeding, but can any aquarium animals, can they be reintroduced in, in the wild and is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More
What role is it playing?… Read More
Gosh, to me it’s everything. Education of our public is why we exist. Certainly you can say, well, you know, know she aquarium is showing a tremendous diversity of animals. You know, telling people about where they came from and why we have them. Sometimes, you know, this is part… Read More
You know, nowadays I, I don’t know maybe ’cause I focus on it more than some people, but the environment is just under attack and it’s like, what will it take to drive people to activism maybe, or concern or voting in a certain way?… Read More
You know, why are they here and why does Shedd aquarium use them to illustrate, you know, challenges in the wild, for instance. So Why would you say education’s important in aquariums?… Read More
It’s more that they’re having fun. So when animals perform for us, we can get those behaviors on cue. We can ask for it through a various, they call SD, a signal that tells the animal, we want you to do this behavior, then come back and I’ll give you… Read More
And it always had people swamping them with, they wanted to know things about the dolphins. So I think that yes, we are successful in getting the messages across. We certainly present them in multiple formats, but it’s, you know, it’s what the, what is the audience there for, you… Read More
Yeah, and why We, we make a major effort to include messages about conservation, education, the animal’s, natural history, you know, their habitat, what they eat in the wild. It’s all part of the message. The the reality is, and it always bothers me, but the reality is the people… Read More
I said, where’s the trainer who taught up to do that?… Read More
What would detractors say and what would you hope a show would be doing?… Read More
Do the shows, what is the value of the shows?… Read More
Do animal shows like the dolphin shows, do they help to get the message across to visitors about a group of animals or conservation?… Read More
Like, well, no, they just kind of come here on a regular basis and they said, we’re not gonna cover it. We’ve seen this before. And they, it was nice that they contacted us and said, it’s not worth our time to come over there. And the thing that was… Read More
Why are they protesting?… Read More
They’re gonna be outside the building and you know, was there anything going on?… Read More
I’m like, well, you know, we just do our regular operations. Read More