Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 230
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Was this from Africa or from Asia?… Read More
The last shipment I brought in was eight. I have a letter, wherever my files, I’d find it, but I have a letter from the countries, the man in the country of origin asking me questions about what should we do to straighten out our laws, and I answered him. Read More
No, not from Asia. Africans. Asian elephants, all right, look. Let me do this. In dealing with elephants, I owned or dealt with 55 Africans, something like 32 Asians. Of those 32 Asians, I didn’t bring one out of Asia. I bought them and resold them in this country. Africans… Read More
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And how difficult was it to bring these animals over?… Read More
Not difficult at all. If you had the money, you got the animals. Read More
In my opinion, no. Zoos have gotten smart enough so they know how to do business. Zoos are a lot more knowledgeable about the laws. They used to know absolutely nothing about the laws, which is a dangerous situation to be in. That dealers knew more about the laws, but… Read More
After that initial shipment, later as an animal dealer, did you bring other groups of elephants over?… Read More
You brought elephants in. Yup. Read More
Is there a need for animal dealers now for zoos, in your opinion?… Read More
Wait. Wait a minute. Today, in this day and age, zoos do a lot of trading back and forth, and very few animals come from the wild anymore. Read More
Are they needed?… Read More
Well, the story about them and the snow leopard, as I recall, was that they bought the animal, and they found out they didn’t, their permit was for (vocalizes). These leopards but not that one. And you took, I took ownership of the animal. I don’t remember, to be honest,… Read More
I was responsible for that leopard all the time it was on the road, but I legally owned it. Read More
Well, when you say we’re talking about animal dealers and zoos that you sold to, what kind of benefits do you think dealers provide as suppliers for zoos?… Read More
Somebody from your zoo called me and said, “Do you know so and so?” And I said, “Yes, I know him well.” “What’s he doing with, I think it was a snow leopard that he says belongs to you?” And I said, “He’s performing with it, and it does belong… Read More
No, no. Cristiani we’re talking about now, Cristiani. Oh, shoot. Well, a famous riding family. Yeah, but the oldest son, but I can’t think of his name. He’ll come to me. Well, yeah. He and his wife trained leopards and did a stage act with trained leopards. Read More
Frans van den Brink?… Read More
Connie. Who did we, we dealt with, one of the Cristianis. He has young kids now. And took care of his leopards. Read More