Well I, my experience showed me what they like to do, things that they like to do. And obviously the wild has a great effect on that too. It’s the same kind of thing. But it just showed me what they liked to do, and how they made nests, so… Read More
Well, I don’t know. He was a very forceful person. (laughing) Commissioner Schick was a very forceful person, a very, a great benefactor for the zoo. He, you know actually he was, he really was. And I can’t say that, you know, I didn’t have anywhere near as much contact… Read More
But you know, you wanted to treat that person with the respect that he deserved, and that’s what you, you know, showed me that, keep doing that and you’ll be okay. You would be, and wherever you went, you could be that way if you treated them that way, that… Read More
Was there any important things that you learned from your Lincoln park Zoo experience about maybe yourself as an individual working with animals or the zoo world in general?… Read More
Did Lester, Dr. Fisher come back to you and ask you about that statement?… Read More
Because I know he got some notoriety for it. I don’t recall, I don’t recall that he did. Now you had to deal with members, while you were at Lincoln Park, with members of the park, commissioners, you had exposure to them. Yeah, yeah. What did dealing with some people,… Read More
What was that starting, maybe to teach you about relationships with those type of people that later on you would come in contact with?… Read More
Well, (chuckling) when I said that, obviously I didn’t mean that I would actually eat the kangaroo. But it was meant, because it was such an unusual statement, I felt, that it was meant to show people that there was no kangaroo out there at all, and that’s why I… Read More
I mean, that was the whole thing, you know?… Read More
They couldn’t be reached by radio and they were running after this kangaroo, which obviously was incorrect. And I knew it, and everybody else knew it too, and that’s why I said that. Read More
Makes you the proudest?… Read More
Oh, well I think that what makes me the proudest, I think is that, you know, we did things I think, that I helped build a primate collection that was a real good one, a lot of unusual animals in it. I think that the care, being extremely careful about… Read More
How did you regard the media then I guess, and would you have handled it differently in today’s climate?… Read More
What would you say was, what kind of, what would you say was your most significant achievement at Lincoln Park Zoo while you were there?… Read More
What do you consider?… Read More
I think it’s important to make rounds, to be able to make a decision at some time in the future, because if you gotta know what’s going on with the various animals, various exhibits, things like that. Yeah. I think it’s real important to do that. Read More
And we’ll talk later, but did you continue that when you went to San Francisco?… Read More
In a different way, I did. A lot of people thought I didn’t, but I was in that zoo almost every night after hours, yeah. Read More
Was that part of your routine, is to make rounds, and how important do you think that is?… Read More
Well, I think how are you gonna know what’s going, really know what’s going on?… Read More