I like the Bronx, although I think it’s getting a little old. I think what the Bronx has done under Bill Conway and followed by people like Lee Ehmke and Sue Chin, the present director of VP design, is they have put in new exhibits and they really spend a… Read More
So I like Bronx, I like Zurich. I think Zurich is probably one of my favorite exhibits. Zoos, they have a lot of stuff in the old zoo, which is nice. And then they’ve got the new zoo, which really quite, quite spectacular. They’ve got a big African era. They’ve… Read More
Quite a lot of the American zoos are good. Some of the Australian zoos are good. Read More
Where are they?… Read More
Why do you admire them?… Read More
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Was there anything on the drawing board?… Read More
Not really. Not really. I think I pretty well pretty much did what I wanted to do. Actually, we’d always talked about doing an aquarium and I never did it, but it was done. It was done by my successors, freshwater aquarium called River Safari. Are there zoos in the… Read More
And it’s fine, it’s good. Read More
Are there any programs or exhibits that you would have liked to have implemented during your tenure just didn’t happen?… Read More
So when I left the zoo, so I had this agonizing six months where I was unhappy and I just couldn’t decided. I had to leave. II couldn’t stand with my being with my chairman, working with my chairman. I went through a period where I talked to people and… Read More
I toyed with the idea of being the CEO of a fast food company and said, “I don’t think that’s really what I want to do.” But it’s like once you’re in the CEO position, it’s kind of like, yeah, I mean you know what you gotta do to be… Read More
These are areas which are growing. Europe and the States and Australia are mature markets. There’s no news news coming up in these countries, maybe eastern Europe, but most of them are just redeveloping existing exhibits and spending huge amounts of money. I mean, I would spend $50 million on… Read More
How did Bernard Harrison and Friends come about?… Read More
To what extent do you continue to be active in the zoological park field?… Read More
Well, because of my company, which I set up in 2002, Bernard Harrison and Friends, which designs zoos and ecotourism attractions, little bit of aquariums, not a lot, but we do have aquarium team. I’ve always basically been in the field, I mean in the zoo field. As I said,… Read More
Yeah, I think basically getting new stuff on a regular basis is very critical. Read More
If you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
I think I would’ve spent more time studying good exhibit design at a much younger age. And obviously I’m exhibit designer, so that’s my interest and focus. I only really got into understand exhibit design halfway through my career, and it’s only really been in the last 30 years out… Read More
So is there any advice you’d give the neophyte zoo director about the importance of marketing zoos or important aspects for a new guy, Gail?… Read More