Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 212
So if you let someone else make the decision for you, and there’s an issue, guess where I’m going?… Read More
So if you let someone else make the decision for you, and there’s an issue, guess where I’m going?… Read More
I’m not going down there. You’re the one that allowed it to happen. Let’s make you a working curator. Let’s give you the skills you need to do it. And let, let’s hope, hopefully you understand some of these challenges that we talked about. Read More
And, and so I, my goal was to mentor them the way I felt they should be mentored and, and say, you first of all, be proud of what you are, you know, but be knowledgeable of what you are so that they’re, I don’t want the tail wagging the… Read More
Trying to, well, two different directions. One, trying to mentor and create the managers that I thought should be, how they should be. Like I said, when I got there, a lot of the curators weren’t working curators, they were, you’d said computer curators. And I said, no, a curator… Read More
And we, we finally got funding for it. And I left before it was built and Mike said he was gonna follow through with it. So I don’t know if they did, but the ambassador program was, to me, was critically important. But that was another thing that people were… Read More
It’s like, no, we proved it wasn’t, you know, so I, I don’t Well, in your leadership position, what would you say was one of the most rewarding parts of your job in your leadership position?… Read More
Mobile, mobile clinics. And I went to ’em and said, listen, I’m looking for a van that I can transport animals with. ’cause I want to go to school. So when I go to a school, I don’t wanna go in for 10 minutes with one classroom. I want to… Read More
Well, we did our, our appraisal, the porcupines have been producing kids and they’re, they go out in front of the public all the time. The benter wrong the same way. It’s like ambassador programs did not necessarily mean it’s bad welfare, it’s how you manage it. But they had… Read More
I don’t know what they have. I went to a, a company over in Missouri that built vans for veterinarians, right?… Read More
And that’s what they knew. And it’s like, and can you breed ambassador animals?… Read More
It was gonna be an answer ambassador program. Read More
Did it really impact an animal that had been hand raised?… Read More
Is this really true? And so we started doing the studies and, and convinced other zoos to do the same thing. Read More
And I said, I, I don’t wanna see a hamster or a Guinea pig. We have that over in the Children’s zoo and that’s nice. I want animals that people want to get close to. Because when you read the surveys, they go, you know, that big exhibit’s nice, but… Read More
The other thing too is I, when I came on back on board, I asked about their ambassador program. Oh, well, you know, we have Guinea pigs and hamsters and we’ve got parakeet. And I went, no, no, that’s all right. And so I got with the, the local architectural… Read More
If I go to a zoo and see everything I saw at the other zoo, you know, why, why am I doing that?… Read More
It took me a long time to find genes. I had to go to a private breeder to find genes. And so it’s things like that that I think we lost that I would love to see come back. Diversity of life. And it’s, it’s challenge ’cause of space and… Read More
And I went, my God, I used to breed fishers all the time. And it’s a cool active animal. Is it a huge animal? No. ’cause I like jewel box exhibits. I pe that’s, you know, aquariums and things like that. And I said, let’s look at gents. I couldn’t… Read More
But out in the exhibit, I wanna see flocks, I wanna see something I’d see in the wild. And we just had moved away from that. Read More
And I, I brought in stuff like I, I, I wanted to bring in fishers and people looked at me and go, what’s that?… Read More