We’ve had several, you know in my career there, we’ve had several injuries to individuals. We had one keeper who thought that he had, you know, turned the little sun bears out. I mean, these are small bears, but they’re still can be, do a lot of damage. They’re a… Read More
And anytime you have an incident, we, you know, evaluate the whole thing. And you know, one of the things that we did change, was we surely changed the lighting in that enclosure that, you know it was, those bears are dark black color and the area was not as… Read More
But you know, and then you’re talking with the pilots, you know, because you’re sitting there. I mean, there’s nobody else on the plane but the pilots and a few other airline people. But you know, so that was more interesting. But then we shipped another gorilla to the Dallas… Read More
It wasn’t like a big plane that if something happened, you could work on it. It would’ve been, if that thing would’ve woke up on the process, that would’ve been a little bit more difficult to mess with. Read More
Well, now wasn’t a zookeeper, survived a bear attack?… Read More
They were dead animals. But so you know, it was quite the scene there for a little while. Read More
There was a chimp and gorilla in a plane?… Read More
Oh no we, of course all the time were shipping animals, and taking animals in, and different times, well we worked with whatever the zoo was. One of the gorillas, I accompanied the gorilla to, we were shipping it, I think that was onbound to the San Diego Zoo. And… Read More
Now these things are in plastic bags, but they were clear plastic, so you could see through them. But they’re in bags, and you could hear people. Read More
“Oh, did that die in the, you know, in the crash?… Read More
What happened to the,” you know?… Read More
Well, here’s a peacock in the trunk, you know?… Read More
A full peacock that was supposed to get, I was taking it to the vet school to do the necropsies and so forth. Read More
And then we had a snow leopard in there, you know?… Read More
I don’t think anybody got hurt, ’cause I’m the only one that was in the car,” you know?… Read More
Anyway, so then finally they’re turning it over, and the police are there and the people are all around. And you know, they’re gonna tow the car away, so I gotta get my stuff out of there. Open up the trunk. Read More
I was already falling asleep on the highway. Well, then you just end up on the shoulder. Well, here I fell asleep again, ran into this telephone pole, knocked out the power, all the houses around, I don’t know how many miles, but certainly all around there. Make a loud… Read More
“Bill, Bill,” he says, “did you see what happened?… Read More
Did anybody get hurt?” I says, “Well no, I didn’t see what happened. Read More
Oh, a hellbender is a salamander. It’s a large, you know, salamander, and it’s the Ozark hellbender that we’re talking about, that is, you know, I’m not sure what its status is, whether it’s threatened, endangered, or what, the Ozark hellbender in Missouri streams. And it was certainly less and… Read More