Interview 22877 – Caption Index: 401
And John was great to work with, so. Read More
And John was great to work with, so. Read More
What animal species would you consider to be the most significant that you acquired in your career?… Read More
Do you have a favorite animal?… Read More
I guess when I started at Milwaukee, I was excited to be able to work with moose. I like moose. I always wanted to see a moose. Read More
Are some animals easier to work with?… Read More
Some animals require a greater level of care to work with. Yeah, some animals are easier to work with. Some animals you don’t need to, I mean, like most hoofstock, if you’ve got the right social arrangement and you feed ’em and, you know, it’s set up well, they’re fairly… Read More
I thought that was wonderful, (chuckles) but that would never fly here. (chuckles) That and when we got the question on how do you ship a zebra by train?… Read More
I’m sure, the things I remember most, and it was from our trip to China, I was like, God, I wish if, you know, an animal escaped, I had a trained gibbon to go up and get them down out of the tree. Read More
I’m thinking, oh, you need to talk to a circus person. (chuckles) I’ve never done that. I can ship lots of things, but I’ve never shipped anything by train. Read More
Were you able to travel to see other zoos?… Read More
Well, when I went to conferences, yeah. Never when I was in Washington. My first AZA meeting was the year I went to Milwaukee and I got there and they said, “Oh, you’re in charge of enter or food for the conference this year.” I’m going, “What?” (chuckles) Luckily someone… Read More
Were you able to apply things you learned from other zoos to some of the animal management or exhibitry at Milwaukee?… Read More
At the Milwaukee Zoo?… Read More
Did you have any input in it?… Read More
No, it really, most of it was done by the reptile people. And Boese was instrumental with the Birds without Borders. And I think that started when he was director and carried on when he was director of the Society. I was more interested in local conservation, so my conservation… Read More
How diverse were your employees, women keepers?… Read More
Asians were not, ’cause we had a lot of Asian doctors at the medical complex. (chuckles) How did conservation on an international level start?… Read More
Women keepers. Yep, We had the Jimmy Jones rule in Milwaukee. That you had to, there was a suit that there were not enough minorities hired by the county, so we had every second or third hire, we had to hire a minority, which was either an African American, Native… Read More
I thought about it ’cause I had thought that I wanted to be a zoo director when I was in high school. And I interviewed a couple of times for director jobs and basically, the last time it was interesting. I interviewed at Seneca Park Zoo to be zoo director. Read More
And I just said, “Well, you know, I don’t really think that I’m the right person for this job.” End of interview, didn’t even get me a taxi going home. I had to find my own way out. I mean, that was, turns out somebody later said, “You know, they… Read More