Because as soon as it’s built, it’s overcrowded and you can’t build, you can’t. If you’re gonna do it, build build into it. I have a draft barn that can hold 12 giraffes. I got five. Now when I get to 12, then I’ll have that problem of, of, of,… Read More
Well, I wouldn’t call ’em surplus, first of all. You know, they’re animals that, that, that they don’t have space for. So, you know, they’re, they’re gonna have to go someplace else. It’s, I mean, that’s just a terminology thing. But I don’t like the way they, if, if they’re,… Read More
But you know, that, that, that entitlement thing that we have nowadays is, is also more of a, you know, a challenge than it is a problem. More than it is a benefit. Everybody thinks they can run everything now. They can. They know everything. And I, I’ve had keepers… Read More
How do you think zoos should be dealing with surplus animals?… Read More
You could still run my business. But you know, you, you have to, you have to stay the course. And, and that commitment, it’s so much more difficult now to stay, to do one thing when there’s so many other temptations out there. And you wanna be promoted now right… Read More
What, what are you doing here, kid?… Read More
First of all, I paid for most of it. He said, we paid for all this education, and you’re still shoveling shit into a dump truck. Read More
I, I, I can tell if I’m giving a talk, if I’m gonna, when I’m gonna shut it down, or I’m going, or I’m gonna pivot and do something else, you just look at how they’re reading their cell phones, you know, something like that. There, there’s so ma there’s… Read More
They’re doing so much more. And I think it’s a really good avenue for people to get to. But they have to realize that the first few years this is gonna be shoveling shit. Okay. They’re you. Yeah. I, I had a master’s degree and I’m still throwing elephant shit… Read More
You know, you would’ve brought that, you know, and listen, Rick, don’t jump into that conversation. Let the guy finish first. You know, make sure you’re be a much better listener. Because, you know, I can be a, it’s funny, I can be a talker, but I’m an only child… Read More
I question myself all the time. Read More
How I can be better and say, should I bring that up?… Read More
I didn’t, I didn’t have one, one piece of advice. I think, you know, my, my, my people like Bill Barnett or Conway that were mentors didn’t give me advice. They, they, they, it was by example. You just watch what they did. And, and you can’t be somebody else. Read More
What was the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Well then that, that, that, that’s like trying to mind read for, it’d be a fortune tell for elephants. I I think that having elephants in the history is abominable what happens in, in this country, the way elephants were treated. And it’s just, you know, in the last 20… Read More
But I, I think the elephants in good facilities in this country, especially the bigger ones that, you know, that Omaha and Cedgwick County, and d and Dallas brought some elephants in that was very controversial. But all those elephants are thriving in captive situations, in big exhibits. San Diego… Read More
But again, in a perfect world, elephants are difficult, just like killer whales. You know, we should, we shouldn’t have ’em in captivity, but we have to have ’em in order to draw our attention to, to, so, so if we have ’em do it right. I think you may… Read More
You know, I think you would, they would they rather be in the wild?… Read More
Well, you know, we talked about animals earning their keep. Ideally, elephants don’t belong in zoos, but if we didn’t have ’em in zoos, I don’t think people would have the same compassion for saving them in the wild. So there are good exhibits much. And that, that’s where space… Read More
I don’t know what the number is now with a ZA, but it’s, it’s, you know, hundreds of million dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars a year now to conservation just from the 240 zoos and aquariums. And the aquariums is, you got shed and you got the Georgia Aquarium… Read More