You need to read “Life Magazine.” So when were you working with these unusual animals, what was your general approach, not only to them, but to the animals now that you were in charge of at the zoo about the care of these animals?… Read More
The care of the animals at the Fort Worth Zoo were, I’d have to say it was a learning experience. Very little was known. We didn’t have Lee Crandall’s book on mammal care in captivity. We had a lot of material from the Philadelphia Zoo where they made up completely,… Read More
Ivan Sanderson, I found out, was in Africa collecting animals. He had a giant pangolin. He had a male giant pangolin. And I wrote him and said, “I’m really interested in this.” He said, “Oh, they’re very hard to keep. I doubt if you’ve got one now, if, you know,… Read More
I was told that when Ivan Sanderson got off the boat, he had scheduled a press conference. And he talked about this pangolin he had. And somebody said, “Oh, here. Read More
One of them is a giant pangolin. Hell, this long. And I’ve really worked learned about, you’re in my Eden, tapeman, you know how it is. We worked with a different, I mean, I fed him the same thing that the doctor had been feeding them. But then he would… Read More
Do you remember Ivan Sanderson?… Read More
You know, like Julius Squeezer for a snake, you know, a boa constrictor. And the best one I remember was Olivia de Javelina, all at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. And then of course, the mate to Olivia de Javelina was Gregory Peccary, wonderful names. And the public remembers those… Read More
When I first got to Fort Worth, I really started, I had a chance there to do something. At Dallas, it was just, I’d designed all kinds of things and they, “Yeah, that’s nice. When we get a bond issue, we’ll think about that,” and all. Fort Worth, I could… Read More
Which there were three pangolins in it. And I found out nobody else had any pangolins. I wrote a letter to the, at the Basel Zoo, Lang, whom I get a got correspondence going with. He said, “I don’t know of any of them anywhere.” I said, “Man, I’ve got… Read More
They’ll come see it and all that. In my herpetological work, there was a guy in California who sold papers, books and things, on herpetology. And when I wrote him and said, “Send my catalogs to the Fort Worth Zoo,” he said, “Oh, you’re in the zoos,” yeah. He said,… Read More
What started to shape your views on zoos and opinions about zoo development?… Read More
Was it starting then?… Read More
And I got to know my colleagues who were all older than I was, much older. Read More
Hittson had been putting out this surplus list for the AAZPA. I had written a few articles for the, which Roger had published in the magazine. Well, he says, “You’re gonna put the surplus list, so you put it out.” Well, that made me, that was a committee assignment. And… Read More
What started when you took this directorship, and you were now involved with AZA?… Read More
What the hell does he know?… Read More
He’s what, 21, 22?… Read More
He’s just been to college. He’s got book learning.” So you have to overcome those things. But see, this was in the 1950s. And zoos were still… It was just a different world for zoos. But I did get accepted. And the superintendent and I were able to work out… Read More
Well, in different ways. My introduction at the Fort Worth Zoo, with the same thing that I’d done at Dallas. I went on all the routes. And the younger keepers I got along with fine. Read More
How did they receive you?… Read More