So those are all very important. So somebody has to be kind of in charge of okay, here’s what we’re gonna do. But they have done that now and so if there’s camera feeds if you’re expecting a birth of something, or they will put things out on Facebook and… Read More
Yeah. We would take – yeah. We had emergency procedures. Every once in a while we’d do an unannounced type thing and I’d go up to the concession stand and get a, or the gift shop, get a stuffed lion and I’d put it somewhere in the zoo. And I’d… Read More
I was always at the bottom of the list because I was too small to get the shotgun very – I had to shoot from the hip. And I was not a very good shot. So thank goodness it was not me. But luckily we didn’t have anything that was… Read More
How do you see the new technologies assisting, if they can, to promote zoos?… Read More
Twitter, Facebook, remote cameras to draw attention to wildlife. Read More
Did you plan for contingency emergencies?… Read More
You mentioned an animal getting out. Did the zoo have those kind of…… Read More
Plans in place?… Read More
I think he could have taken it the bad way of dang, these people don’t know what they’re doing. Read More
They can’t keep their own animals in, you know?… Read More
So they were very kind to us. I don’t know if he just took pity on me that day, but he was a good guy. Read More
Again, I think it’s one-on-one. You’re always there for if they want to set up an interview, you make it happen. If they want to deal with something that you don’t want to deal with, you figure out how to turn it to your way to say yes, this was… Read More
You know, you made the newspaper photographer especially feel important and available when you could because anytime then that they needed a filler. They thought oh, I’m gonna call Jan at the zoo ’cause I bet she’ll have something. We did the same thing with the TV stations. We had… Read More
Next thing you know somebody comes running in going the zebra’s out. And took off and it had gone down to the cemetery. Luckily it was the cemetery and not in the middle of the traffic out on the Prospect Road. But I just remember everybody was in different places… Read More
So we use those type of things, but we could have used more embracing of the community. And I feel bad that we didn’t get more of that. But you do the best you can with what you got. And with our limited funds and what we were able to… Read More
Well you mentioned the press, so did you have good relationship with the press?… Read More
And how did you nurture that relationship?… Read More
Again, it was using the media. I think the most because, you know, people watch TV, they read the paper. If they didn’t feel it was important, or at least in their purview, they just let it pass by. But again, we tried to take all the pieces of what… Read More
Whether they embraced it or not?… Read More
We had not… When we started our campaign for the new zoo, we had gone for the big bucks first. We hadn’t gotten to the point of okay, all the kids putting your pennies in and all that stuff. I hadn’t gotten to that part yet. So. I think them… Read More