There’s a cave over here and a cave over here, and in the middle there’s nothing they can grab a hold of. So they fly from point A to point B.” And I said, “Well, how do you get ’em to fly like that?” And they said, “Well, we put… Read More
And then we came back to the house and designed ours. And I think the exhibit is an above ground exhibit, of course, and we studied, we had a person on our design team that was very into color. He’s a professional photographer. And I hired him as our director… Read More
And I think they’ve changed that since then, but all the rock work’s black. So in the summer months, they couldn’t have the polar bears out there, because it’s too hot. It absorbs all that heat and it’s too hot. The bears couldn’t be out there in the summer months. Read More
What was your proudest animal exhibit achievement?… Read More
Oh gosh, they’re all so unique. I mean we, over the course of my 31 years, transformed, we literally rebuilt 95% of the zoo. 95% of the zoo. There’s four acres left that I hadn’t gotten finished. But other than that, 95% of the zoo we rebuilt in 31 years. Read More
I think one of my favorite exhibits at the zoo is our polar bear exhibit, which we built and opened, oh, probably six years ago. And it’s a beautiful, we spent a lot of time going to all this. The nicest thing about zoos is that we’re one big family. Read More
I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m gonna try. And so, she said, “Oh, sure, we can help you.” And she helped us. And we were able to successfully, in six months time, rescue those animals and bring them here. Without her help, it would’ve never happened. Without their… Read More
Without them, we would not have the animals we have in our zoos today. And yet now they’re kinda shunned and cast aside. And we’re gonna need ’em. We’re constantly transporting animals in zoos. We’re constantly bringing animals. And as we get more global in our efforts, we’re bringing animals… Read More
We need to be able to bring new animals into our stock of animals, and be able to change the bloodlines of our animals so they don’t become inbred and have problems along the way. And so we need these folks as part of our business. We do need to… Read More
And ask her, can you help me?… Read More
I need help, I have no clue what I’m doing, but I said I would try to do it. I have no clue what I’m doing. Read More
As usual, right?… Read More
And so AZA called us and asked us to rescue these animals. Well, I don’t know how to move animals from Africa to here. I have no clue. Read More
I have absolutely, how do you get three full grown adult elephants to Pittsburgh from Botswana?… Read More
I hadn’t a clue. So I called Holly Hunt, wonderful, wonderful person, great person, Holly Hunt, who is part of International Animal Exchange, who, in the old days would be called an animal dealer, animal mover, and a transport company. Read More
Well, I think that, in some cases, animal dealers get a bad rap. It’s like anything else, zoos included. There’s good zoos and there’s bad zoos. There’s good people and there’s bad people. There’s good insects and there’s bad insects. I mean, anything you name, there’s the good and bad… Read More
But in fact, the zoos, all of our zoos back in the day got animals, and we got animals through animal dealers. That’s how we got them. That’s how we got ’em into the states. And so when we looked to rescue three elephants outta Botswana, we were called by… Read More
The generator was $18,000. So if they had a power outage, they didn’t lose all the tissues, and their samples, and all of the things that they had in their labs there. We helped them build part of their laboratory there for their veterinarian work out of, and we built… Read More
What do you see as the cause of this change?… Read More
And how has the role of individual dealers and companies changed with respect to the development of modern zoos?… Read More