Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 380
Is that an issue? And how should curators, in your opinion, be trained today to do what you think is expected of them?… Read More
Is that an issue? And how should curators, in your opinion, be trained today to do what you think is expected of them?… Read More
So I think that the, what was the question again? The, Do you think that, what kind of training, how would you, yeah, What would you include In a training program if you had to develop it for curators?… Read More
Well, I think it’s a double-edged sword. Sometimes it’s too much education and not enough hands-on. Experience is what seems to be the trend now. And they think they can solve everything in front of a computer and, and, and just day to day to data. But you’ve gotta, you’ve… Read More
Well, let me start with Charlie Schroder’s. He was asked that question in a book called Mr. Zoo. And, and Charlie’s answer was, you go to the restrooms and if the bathrooms are clean, then you know they’re taking good care of the animals. That’s a quote from Charlie Schroeder,… Read More
They have to tell stories about their animals, individual animals. What makes a good zoo is that the back of house is the same as the front of house. It’s, there’s no difference. You know, if, if you’re embarrassed to show people where the animals go at night, then you… Read More
What do you think makes a good zoo? A great zoo?… Read More
Another question that we kind of said, why do you, are you, were you a good director?… Read More
Yeah, I’m not trying to be egotistical here, but no, they, they let me decide. Michael Eisner and I would sit down and talk about this when he was the CEO and ’cause he wanted to, one time he wanted to buy the circus, you know, he thought that was… Read More
If you have a Jane Goodall, you have a Bill Conway, you have a Russ Meyer, all these guys that are on our board, Terry Maple, they, Mike Hutchins. All we had, we had an incredible advisory board that that said, no Disney’s doing it right. And they’ll listen to… Read More
Or were they relying more on you as the animal guy to help them form a message?… Read More
It, it was, it, they just had this, the word zoo, we didn’t use the word zoo, but they, they called it a zoo. And that that’s got such a negative connotation historically that we had to deal with a lot of, a lot of letters, a lot of protests… Read More
You can do, you can do all this fake stuff. And so we got a lot of form letters and we had a whole letter writing and there was like 20 people that just responded to letters at Disney. And I did the form letter once and there was one… Read More
But it was, you know, they could, why you, why are you doing real animals?… Read More
Huge issue with Disney. Why?… Read More
Because we, this is the nineties and Disney was gonna do live animals. Mickey Mouse lived forever. Now we’re gonna bring in animals, real animals. And they, and they thought they were getting ’em off in the wild. First of all, they don’t realize that almost ever, all the animals… Read More
’cause they’re so good at it, virtual reality now. Read More
Was it an issue in Disney?… Read More
Optimal cons connected to, to the wild conservation. I think that to me, animal rights is there because zoos dropped the ball. We didn’t deliver on our promise. Our promise is to take good care of animals and we weren’t doing that. And behind the scenes, you know, we have… Read More
Well, as you should because I, well, my question was then with dealing with animal zoo anti zoo groups, was this a issue in Houston?… Read More
And did you have to do that?… Read More