I said, I want you to bring influx of birds. And we added probably, I think when I left, he had added already about 320 specimens to all three sections of, and we had all kinds of activities going on again. So I look at making decisions on showing as… Read More
What kind of factors drove those decisions?… Read More
How many millions of people come through our gates every year that support us?… Read More
Maybe that should tell you something about where you’re at. You know, the vast majority, if you’re honest with them and they trust you, they’re not gonna listen to your garbage that you’re spewing over here. And I, I think that made a big difference. And you had to make… Read More
Our animals have better water quality, have better healthcare. They’re not dodging boats, they’re not being polluted by, you know, fertilizers and things coming into the bay off of the, it’s, it’s a tough life out there. And we provide a safe haven and yeah, we breed and yeah, we’ve… Read More
Here’s where you can pick it because we own the property and you can’t go here, but you can go here. And, you know, you would think, oh, hundreds of people are gonna show up. Well, maybe 12 people would show up. And we would go out and give them… Read More
We’ve got the greatest Dolphin research program down. Sarasota’s been gone for 30 years. Let’s get down there and talk to the how many dolphins die in the Sarasota Bay area every year, and how many of the kids survive. Well, guess what? The percentages were about the same that… Read More
Yes we did, but here’s the data we have out in the wild too, where all these animals are lost, and guess what?… Read More
And it’s like, why?… Read More
Send a reporter down, we’ll be on us. Mike Clary has an attitude. And at first they didn’t like it. And we shut Mike Clary down a couple times from coming in, and he tried to write a story that we’re hiding something, and I forget the gentleman’s name, but… Read More
You wanna do a story on us?… Read More
It had some issues. But when we moved to New Miami Zoo, Metro Zoo, and now Zoo Miami, big open exhibits and stuff, well, you know, you still, like I said before, animals die ensues. We made a point of making sure that we didn’t hide anything. Well, Mike Clary… Read More
And we had a gentleman who was in charge of our PR who later went to Universal Studios, he was really good. He went down and said, Mike Clary is now no longer allowed on zoo grounds. Read More
And it’s like, I’m not hiding anything. We made a mistake, this happened. And if you can get to that point of honesty where media, and unfortunately social media, you can’t control, but print media and television media, when you gain their confidence that you’re not hiding anything, you’re being… Read More
And the Crane Park Zoo was an old concrete and bar steel typical old time zoo, right?… Read More
You know, what are you hiding?… Read More
First of all, if you’re honest about everything, you don’t get, what aren’t you telling me?… Read More
Okay, that goes back to when I, when I talked about being honest. Read More
So then how do you maintain public confidence amid the growing skepticism that you’ve talked about with animals in captivity?… Read More
Because we can’t do our programs, our breeding programs. Well, there’s no purpose behind it except to create a problem and stop zoos, in my opinion. And, and that influence is out there. It’s strong. I mean, we all know what PETA does and what Fund for animals and all… Read More