I think they will, you know, any place, any zoo person I’ve ever known, I think honestly wants to have their animals be successful, which means reproduce and live a long time. I don’t think that’s a problem or any, you know, or would be a problem, or whether you… Read More
Is that good, is it bad?… Read More
Should every zoo strive to have a breeding program?… Read More
Well, I think that it’s sort of inadvertent, anyway, a lot of times. Read More
Oh yeah, I think so, I think so. I think that for a zoo, a non-invasive research of course would be, that would be, you know, would be the best way to go. I don’t think, you know, you wanna do invasive research there, but regular, you know, research on… Read More
What’s the most important piece of advice that you received and has stayed with you throughout your professional career?… Read More
Well, I don’t know, truthfully, I… I’m sure people have given you lots of advice. Well, I would say, not many. (laughing) I would say not many people have given me a lot of advice, as a matter of fact, Some, I guess have but. Nothing stuck with you. No,… Read More
Is there a direction that you tried to take that you feel worked, or?… Read More
Well, you could design it maybe as a, like the Earth is designed. And I’m saying you could have exhibits that are basically on, in, take an area or a country, not a country, that’s an artificial boundary. But an area of land. So you say the, not as a… Read More
That’s what they wanna see, because they wanna see a raccoon, they probably can see it running across the street at night near your home. They don’t wanna see that really. So, I don’t know. Read More
We’ve talked about research and science, should zoos play a role in research and science?… Read More
I think it’s a real big problem, but. Read More
Well given your years of experience in the field, how do you feel zoos should be designed and managed, but certainly designed?… Read More
It’s very difficult for me, honestly, to say that. I don’t know, I really don’t know. I suspect it could very well be a, making very poor decisions. They may have made, a lot of them maybe have made very poor decisions on staff, and maybe it’s that they don’t… Read More
Because there there’s a, you know we, Eddie Almandarz is the man who was the reptile curator of Lincoln park Zoo when I was there, and had been for many years, probably was about as good a practical snake man as you could ever find anywhere, but would he get… Read More
He wouldn’t, nobody would do it. And it would be losing, you know, a tremendous, not a only a tremendous person, but a tremendous source of information. I wouldn’t, there was nobody I’d want to handle any reptile, poisonous reptile around me than him. And he knew all that stuff. Read More
I think it can be done, I really do. Some you can’t, some you’re never gonna be able to, I mean, I know that. But I think there’s a lot of them that you could. Read More
What’s the largest professional problem you think is facing US zoos today, and what can be done to correct the problem?… Read More
Well, it’s hard for me to say no on medical research. I have benefited a great deal from research that was done, you know, that’s been done as years gone by. I think it needs to really be a valuable piece of research because now they’ve got so many computer… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these groups, or how best you dealt with them?… Read More