Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 282
And it would be going on with them to say okay. Read More
And it would be going on with them to say okay. Read More
And the newspapers and saying we’re gonna have to put this animal down, you know?… Read More
And it’s very sad for us. Especially if it was a high profile one. We had a lion named Boomer who had come – when we built the new Lion’s Trace, you know, he came in and I used to play with him on the kitchen floor. You know, at… Read More
For surplus animals. Read More
Why is it a difficult position for a zoo to have to decide that?… Read More
Luckily we didn’t have to do it for surplus at the time, but I’ve been gone for 15 years. We had to euthanize some animals. Either due to health or age. Or a combination thereof. And. That one took a lot of working with the press. And again, education programs… Read More
Well hopefully they’re getting better at not having as many surplus through the breeding of who can breed and who cannot breed. But. There’s still gonna be that fine line of what to do with the animals that aren’t in the breeding programs. And hopefully there’s some… Other facilities. Maybe… Read More
But it’s a hard question. You mentioned before. Euthanasia. And. Read More
Why do you think – did you ever have to consider that as director?… Read More
How do you think zoos need to deal with surplus animals?… Read More
How do – say that one again?… Read More
How do zoos need to deal with surplus animals?… Read More
It’s not just run by the seat of your pants anymore and do what you can to make your money and then go somewhere else. Now you have to work in that education and the conservation. In addition to just the “fun times” and the recreation. But yeah, some of… Read More
Did your zoo deal with animal dealers?… Read More
Back in the day. We did. We would have one or two. And that was before I was director, and actually some of it before I was curator too, so we had some animals come in and we had one guy that we had always worked with that would bring… Read More
But I think it was through the AZA and them setting up some different breeding programs and more cooperation between them that they were able to then move animals around that way versus just going out to the, not that we ever got a lot from the wild but, you… Read More
Where did some of these baby tigers come from, you know?… Read More
‘Cause there used to be a lot of those programs where bringing in baby animals was what was helping “sell” the zoo and they just thought it was normal. But then it again took that education to explain you can’t just keep bringing babies in. They gotta go somewhere when… Read More
What do you see as the cause of this change?… Read More
And how has the role of individual dealers and companies changed with respect to the development of modern zoos?… Read More