Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 293
Or you know, if we’re gonna prep something to move to another zoo for genetic reasons. Read More
Or you know, if we’re gonna prep something to move to another zoo for genetic reasons. Read More
Do you know how that’s gonna impact that animal?… Read More
Do you know what’s gonna happen?… Read More
Do they have that training? And I don’t see that a lot in, in the newer curators that are out there. Read More
And so I would say I would love to Don Bruning and, and John Baylor and I, and, and oh gosh, who was the general curator of Bronx?… Read More
Jim Do gen Do, we were at a, a conference and you were probably there up at Milwaukee. We came out of a talk and all three of us, all four of us looked at each other and go, man, we’ve, we’ve messed up. We, we haven’t mentored these people… Read More
But did you also teach ’em how to be, how to begin to separate themselves and be a people manager to keep harmony and keep production going on in that group that they’re over?… Read More
That’s not animal stuff, but that’s important. Read More
Do they know how to do a budget?… Read More
Let’s make ’em a curator. Well, okay, but did you train ’em in personnel management?… Read More
And that means you have to be a working person out there that has to have knowledge. I’m not saying you have to be an expert at every species. That’s why you hire good, good people, good animal care specialists, good managers. But you need to understand what every specimen… Read More
I look at, what’s the word curate mean?… Read More
Well, sometimes, But what skillset would you say that a person as a director of animal management needs today’s compared to when you started?… Read More
Well, I say I think they need the same thing. And I think that’s been lost in many cases. We talked about the, the computer curator. I go back and I’m a purist. Read More
I, I want to try and I’d love to see stuff created that would invest them more. So they go, this is really a community asset that we need to keep, that we need to support. You. Were in charge of animal management. Read More
They’re gonna start plucking, they’re gonna have other issues. So I don’t think that interaction hurts, but boy, what it did to the public was just incredible. And they, they just really got into it. And so I hope AI can, in the future, can allow us to do more… Read More
I, I hope that ai, if we ever figure out what that is and, and whether it’s controlled or not, I hope AI and our future exhibit capability allows a greater interaction somehow that doesn’t necessarily impact the individual specimen, but allows, you know, we talk about immersion exhibits, right?… Read More
You know, and we had great interpretive, but now with ai, I think we could do so much more if we really invest in it to get that interaction, to get people more invested in what we do and how we do it, so they can feel that maybe they’re… Read More
Where people can come in and get into the environment, so to speak, that the animal’s in and make ’em feel more of, of that part, which is why Tropic World supposedly was, was built. AI can do so much more of that now that would allow that interaction to… Read More
What technologies do you think will be transformative for guest experiences?… Read More