I wish there wasn’t. I wish there was just one organization, but it can’t be for a couple of reasons because a z there’s two things that a ZA does that keeps people from joining or becoming a member. One, we have a very strong ethics code and you have… Read More
Is there room for both?… Read More
But I think zoos can be in United States, but also in, in in waza organizations. I think they can be more aggressive about getting zoos, substandard zoos closed. Now what do you do with the animals becomes another issue. You can’t just close the zoo and move the animals… Read More
Well, I, we’ve, we’ve worked, we’ve said this for years and we’ve not been very successful. This is one where we could work with some animal welfare institutions like HSUS. I think we need to be really good about trying to be against, I’ll just call ’em because it’s a… Read More
There are two professional zoo associations, a ZA and z, a zoological association market. Read More
Well, I think when they can, if they, sometimes the zoo doesn’t have the political clout to make their government do it. I mean, it, it, it can happen. I mean, it certainly, it’s, it’s a little difficult when you’re a, a government run zoo to make any political stance. Read More
What issues would you like to see the National and International Zoo Aquarium Association such as a ZA Laa, ZAA be addressing that?… Read More
If it’s outside the mission, it’s a little more difficult. So yeah, I think zoo should take a stance on a lot of environmental issues, including expansion of parks and, and that kind of thing. Read More
Should Zeus be doing anything to help governments protect land masses in Africa and other places?… Read More
We got new hippos and you could see elephants behind the hippos. Well, that was valued. Yeah, this was gonna be very expensive. So that was, we value engineered out and just did elephants. We had some other smaller exhibits like battered foxes and we just had to not do… Read More
Our old bear grottos, the keepers had to get down and almost on their hands and knees to crawl out. ’cause there was never any door, you know, for the keepers. So you don’t wanna make those kind of mistakes. You need those doors for keepers to walk out. There’s… Read More
I’m trying. We certainly try to design things that’ll work. Hopefully we’ve seen it somewhere else, you know, and, and had it work. It is nice if you, we certainly had to redo things that, that didn’t work as well as we thought. Or the, the barrier was too low… Read More
But so that, I think that was something. So I I I’m sure there were other mistakes. I probably hired some people that I might’ve got somebody better at the time, but it all, it all worked out. And trying to think of other mistakes. I’m sure there were a… Read More
Do you feel sometimes that zoos don’t have the luxury of doing portions of exhibits for proof of concept to say this is gonna work because they have a budget and they can’t do extra things to see if something will work and then throw it away if they don’t… Read More
Every kind imaginable. I suppose one thing, I I, I have a temper, lost my temper a couple times. I really wished I would’ve never lost my temper in front of people. That’s a mistake I made one, one that I, I think of constantly, but when we built the… Read More
Yeah, no, we never did that. We, we never did that. I think we have a room in the hospital where somebody could stay overnight if there was a issue there. But it’s not a, not a big room or anything. And I can amused for several things, but we… Read More
What kind of mistakes?… Read More
You mentioned in the building a place for visiting scientists. Did you ever do that As They do in your own?… Read More
Always got along, all friend, all friendly people. We got along together and again, we traveled to different zoos together because I think it was important to commissioners. And now the Zoo society course, they go on a private plane to, to different zoos. They came to Lincoln Park last… Read More
There wasn’t a park commission and I wouldn’t go to every city council meeting, but if there was a zoo item, I was there. And we had quite an issue with master planning and stuff. So I was there quite a bit. And, and so occasionally I had to talk… Read More