Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 658
What do you tell a young person in college to do who has what appears to be a sincere and realistic interest in a zoo career?… Read More
What do you tell a young person in college to do who has what appears to be a sincere and realistic interest in a zoo career?… Read More
Well, it is quite different than it was when I got in. I mean, to tell veterinary students or anybody today, “Oh yeah, I was offered a job even before I graduated.” They’d say, “What?” You know, they’ve been working 10 years to try to you know, get into a… Read More
So I was, you know and I, they’re my friends, you know?… Read More
I got along with everybody because I wanted to, and so I think that I respected them, and they respected me as a result. Read More
I guess I would say that, I was very proud of the way that the zoo responded to me and how I responded to them. And I’m talking about the employees and that, because when I got into it, it was really new. Zoos didn’t have veterinarians, and there were… Read More
If I asked you what your, professionally what your proudest accomplishment was, what would you say to me?… Read More
So if you could make the choice, what issues would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More
Well, I think education is key to everything, and changing people’s attitudes. And I think zoos already do that, and need to continue to do that, and make them aware of what is the plight of endangered species. And there’s several things involved that are beyond what a zoo can… Read More
The St. Louis Zoo at this point has acquired a parcel of property. I forget whether it’s three, 400 acres, that they’re going to be developing. You know, and a lot of other zoos have gotten breeding farms or whatever, some of them. San Diego with the Wild Animal Park… Read More
Well, it’s kinda interesting, you know?… Read More
No, you don’t think they’ll look differently, or will they be more like White Oak, or less like, you know?… Read More
I think they’ll be much more naturalistic-looking facilities. I think that there will be, I would hope that they would be able to acquire more property and not be real small institutions. I don’t know how they might look differently. Read More
Any thoughts as to what zoos will look like in the future?… Read More
What should zoos be doing to prepare for the future?… Read More
Okay, when you were that young zoo veterinarian, we may have touched on it, but when you were that young zoo veterinarian and you came up, who were you calling to say, “Oh, I’ve never,” other zoo veterinarians or other veterinarians that weren’t in the zoo business?… Read More
No, mostly other zoo veterinarians because somebody that wasn’t in the zoo business wouldn’t have the answer to it for me. I mean, now if it was a particular thing, I knew what it was, you know then, you know, if it’s something involving reproduction, I might be talking to… Read More
We don’t have to, we’re gonna ship this animal to another zoo, but we don’t necessarily have to to anesthetize it to do that.” You can, you know, get it to be trained to go into a crate pretty easily. It’s gonna take a while but, so there are other… Read More
(laughing) Yeah, I’d say go make sure you’re going to a zoo that has another veterinarian that you can learn from. Don’t do what I did, get there and have now nobody else to talk to about it. Read More
Got any advice for me?… Read More
I think sometimes you needed to step back and say, “Well wait a minute, isn’t there another way of doing it?… Read More