With John. Hummingbirds and the plane. Yeah. Yeah, we had to feed the hummingbirds on the plane coming back. Yeah, it was something. And ask him about the pink porpoise. He was involved in it. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We didn’t bring any pink porpoise. Read More
No, no, no. That’s separate. I said ask you about the pink porpoise. That was a separate thing. That was a separate thing. Well, let me ask you, Frank, a question. Read More
When you, basic, when you came from this privately run zoo by Roland Lindemann to a more public zoo, operated by the city of Fort Worth, did you see differences in the way it was run, both of them were run?… Read More
Didn’t you bring back some hummingbirds that trip?… Read More
didn’t you bring back that trip?… Read More
What?… Read More
Yeah. Yeah. Read More
Fort Worth Zoo, yeah. Read More
For Atlanta Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo?… Read More
The treatment was worth experiencing. (chuckling) And was this a collecting tour?… Read More
And in the course of collecting, I got bitten by a rear-fanged snake. I can’t remember the name. But I grabbed the snake off the log, and it turned around and bit me. And this was the rear-fanged snake. Wasn’t terrible. I was bit numb, this hand, I think. I… Read More
I trip up. We pulled into, pulled into a trader’s place in Guatemala City, and I got treated further that afternoon (chuckles). God, I nearly passed out from the treatment, but the bite was nothing. Read More
Steve Dobbs was invited to attend, I guess it was a vacation in Guatemala. I went along as general curator, more or less in charge of the operation. And a third person, I don’t remember the guy’s name, but a friend of Steve’s went along. We went to Guatemala. We… Read More
The Fort Worth Zoo was sort of a one-man zoo. It wasn’t, wasn’t entirely a one-man zoo, but damn near it. He called the shots on everything. Lawrence Curtis. I took the job of general curator. I was sorry that I had taken it later on. We moved there, bought… Read More
John Mertens operated the reptile house by a remote control. He would tell his stepson, “Do this and do that,” and everything would be all right. They had been operated under this way for a year since the reptile house had been opened. Shortly after I came there, John Mertens… Read More
What was the zoo like when you came to Fort Worth?… Read More
I mean, what kind of zoo was it?… Read More
It was a one-man zoo. The previous year, they had built a reptile house. It was one of the most complete reptile houses in the country. The man in charge of the reptile house was a kid, 19 year old, roughly, kid. But his stepfather was John Mertens. Steve Mertens… Read More
Sheer money. But they survived. Okay, let’s recap a little, and that is Mr. Lindemann has let you go, and you’re moving to Florida. You were thinking about fish, but you go to the Fort Worth Zoo about 1961. But how did you get… Here’s my question. Read More
The director of the Fort Worth Zoo was at one of the Zoo directors conferences. As a matter of fact, I think I sold him a pair of tapirs that we had at the, we had brought them in from South America. Little weight, little guys. Weighed 20 pounds a… Read More