Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 463
A, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Right?… Read More
A, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Right?… Read More
’cause I went to the Bronx Zoo, I went to the American Museum of Natural History. I still have this postcard that I brought back in second grade of this gorilla in the diorama, the ley hole of mammals. And, you know, little did I know, he went out there… Read More
Again, why am I in the business?… Read More
But today there’s a lot more competition out there with technology and other, you know, OO other venues that provide a lot, maybe more exciting type of thrills. But di Disney is, Disney has that combination. Now they have that Pandora, that avatar ride that is incredible. But, but people… Read More
They want, they wanna make sure that their zoo is, is, is making a difference and, and, and making a difference in their community. Read More
Do you think every animal in a zoo collection should have a component in the wild of conservation? Every exhibit?… Read More
Yeah. Metaphorically. Yes. I, I think that, I mean, if you, if you’ve got a, if you’ve got a frog, if you’ve got frogs and you’re doing something, you, you can do something local with local frog populations. It doesn’t have to be that species. It could just be that… Read More
I mean, kids sometimes just want to get up early and shovel and shovel the, the, the, you know, the feces with the, the animal poop with the, with the keepers. They just love doing that. So I think it’s all part of the, you know, the animals, animals can’t… Read More
And I think that in that way, the animals do earn their, keep The animals are ambassadors. We, we always talk about that. But they’re real life ambassadors that will draw your attention to their plight in the wild. And, and giraffes and rhinos, which I have, are two of… Read More
You know, or, or last year. No, wait on that. Go to their heart first. You know, get them to have fun at that zoo and, and the animals have to earn their keep. I think that’s a question you were gonna ask me too. I mean, that doesn’t mean… Read More
And that, and fun isn’t like, oh, do you know what we did in the wild yesterday?… Read More
If you just write a check, you can brag about, oh yeah, we gave a million dollars to conservation this year. But it’s the quality of what you do. It has to be part of your family, your story. If you do that, I think you’re gonna have a much… Read More
I, how do you justify a zoo to, to an educated public?… Read More
And you have to get better every year. Like I said, there’s no finish line. The more you do, the more you can do, the more you’re gonna have to do. Read More
If you’re not helping animals in the wild and you’re just having a, you know, what we call a living museum, I guess, you know, to me maybe that’s just me and a few people, but there’s no future in zoos if we don’t connect it better to saving habitats… Read More
Did you feel that the people who worked at the Houston Zoo and, and possibly Disney, but certainly the Houston Zoo from the groundskeeper up understood the mission of the zoo At Houston?… Read More
And they didn’t all know how to answer the questions to the public the same way. But they knew who to go to. So a a a lot of people get more pride for working for the zoo because now they’re working for something that’s making a difference and they… Read More
Yes, and it got even better after I left because they just, we, we had an incredible conservation team. We, we, a lot of times you’ll send animal people over on a conservation project, but we were able to send technical people over sometimes to help with websites. We could… Read More
It’s part of one family. We’re all one family. And if you can do that family approach, I call it the one team approach. There’s the one plan approach that everybody talks about that, you know, that’s, that’s about working together too. But the one team approach is everybody’s on… Read More
We’re not just a, a zoo for the, for the public here. We have, we have a much broader, more encompassing mission. And that, and those boards that get that, because the, the director answers to the board, if the, if you get the board to, to support you, you… Read More