And that was paid for out of that USAID grant. And then we, and there may have been, Rob might have put money into it from other grants that he had as well. And then when I was in, I went to a conference in West Bengal Jaldaparae Parra Wildlife… Read More
Well, most elephants we see are domesticated, right?… Read More
They’re trained in in captivity. They may have links to the wild, but seeing real wild populations that are don’t hang around for, for you to observe them is something I wanted to see. But my interest in elephants actually started in Nepal because we had the Tiger Ecology project… Read More
And I was fascinated by the mahout tiger relationship. And I started to read Kipling’s stories about mahouts and I realized that Kipling knew a lot about elephant ma mahout relations, where he had a good imagination and was making stuff up. So I started paying more and more attention… Read More
What did you mean by that in relation to the elephants?… Read More
You were editor for elephants and ethics, you said about Burma. The chance to see wild elephants in their native force was an opportunity I couldn’t pass. Read More
What is the role of conservation breeding or breeding in zoos for conservation?… Read More
So that’s, that’s the way it used to work. Work. I don’t know how it works now. I know that I think AZA has kind of backed off from the, OR softened the mission for conservation. Now it’s mainly recreation for Judith sent me the terminology and I just looked… Read More
Well, one of the things zoos can do without pie pine, the sky goals is simply to gather information on good husbandry protocols and reproductive biology, reproductive behavior, estrous cycle length, basic statistics of reproduction and things that can be done on all is used by keeping good records. So… Read More
Yeah, well I mean in the old days of the SSP programs, if they had any species that were SSP species, they were participating and they had a piece of the action and they could contribute and exchange, inform information during annual A-A-Z-P-A conferences, right?… Read More
They don’t have the big fun. Read More
As long as peop as there are people around who care about the natural world, I would say there’s hope. But the minute these scales turn and the primary concern is on population growth, spending exploitation of natural resources, non-renewable, the exclusion of non-renew of renewable resource management and that… Read More
So I think we have a duty to educate people as much as we possibly can about the natural world where all these animals come from And what can small zoos or even we size zoos, well not the big zoos like San Diego and so forth, what can they… Read More
What gives me hope?… Read More
What worries you or what gives you hope?… Read More
And he did a fantastic job. So we had the wildlife management training course, which Rudy headed up, went all over the place doing that. And then we had the zoo biology training course, which I headed up and then I started to farm out to people like you who… Read More
And we picked something that very little is known about, kind of a mystery species. And we got the money to do that. So I went over two years in a row and then on the third year I brought Larry Collins and Ken Lang, who is a keeper at… Read More
And these guys were really anxious, they were hungry for information and I got a very good feeling for ’em. And they also, they knew more about North American and South American mammals than I expected. I was really surprised they were pretty well informed these guys. And when I… Read More
Well we got Chang Mai, we got Bangkok and we got Kheo Kheow Open Zoo. So they helped me write the proposal and said this is how we could do it. Oh we have accommodations for you and everything. So I put in their proposal, we got the money. So… Read More
I’d sit in the dining at the kitchen table after dinner with my computer and just hammering away and doing the chapters. And it was just flowing. You know, it was, writing can be hard sometimes, but this was easy to do and it was fun ’cause there were challenges… Read More