Well, depending which… I think they’d need a broad base knowledge, but I think whatever their specialty is there ought to be, if it was the animal department, there ought to be some training in records. Always communications in everything. Of how to deal with other zoos. How to deal… Read More
Or even within your sphere. Read More
How would you like to see curators trained?… Read More
Does management school play the role of AZA or some of those to make it mandatory that people at a certain mid-level get the same training as maybe potential directors?… Read More
We dealt with how to approach some of it. Like if… Probably most through either marketing or conservation. Or the conservation education committees, but. I never felt the difference there because we were more isolated. We were more zoo people talking among zoo people. I think we should have diversified… Read More
Dealing with humane organizations, PETA, any of the outside groups. And working to see what kind of common thoughts you have, or common threads that you can work on. Although you’ve been out of the profession a number of years. Read More
Would you say that there are good middle management curatorial level people today?… Read More
Can we get together and talk about this?… Read More
And at least put a name to a face so it’s not as easy to classify you as you’re that. If that makes sense. Read More
Did you have to deal with this type of issue in any of the national committees that you were involved in?… Read More
I think it would behoove them to do it. I don’t think all of them do, but I think it would be wise in their master planning phase to figure out what they’re good at and what they want to concentrate on. Zoos in many cases today are afraid to… Read More
Could we have your thoughts on how best to deal with these types of groups?… Read More
Again, I think it’s gonna have to be on a one-to-one basis almost, or small groups. It’s hard to just go in and say now here’s the other side and this is what we think. It’s gonna have to be a person talking to a person. So they’re not looking… Read More
On larger scales it’s nice to geographically be in an area where you can go to a larger zoo that has a wide variety, you know, and maybe do them by continents or by, you know, big cats, primates, birds. You want the variety there, but you can’t just say… Read More
Should smaller zoos then have a specialty?… Read More
North American?… Read More
Well you wouldn’t want them all to be the same. I think it’s the personality of. Of your individual city or town or area and what they need or want from you that you can provide them. Within a certain budget. Read More
I mean I think it’d be great to have an all small zoo run by a small zoo director, you know?… Read More
And nominating, that’s just a small committee. And that one’s just picked by… I think they were looking for somebody from a small zoo. To represent our whole organization. Instead of just getting somebody from the big zoos to nominate some other people from big zoos. So bless their hearts,… Read More
Considering, and you kind of touched on this, considering the financial resources available to many small or medium-sized zoos, what do you think should be the focus of the collection?… Read More