Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 727
What would you say to those who still believe that zoo are nothing more than places where they cage animals?… Read More
What would you say to those who still believe that zoo are nothing more than places where they cage animals?… Read More
Well, they may be right. But I don’t think that’s, that’s not the reason they’re there. You know, it’s like the old story, I think I said this before tonight, that bars do not a prison make, and they don’t. But you can’t really, you know, many of those people… Read More
Is there issues that you’d like to see the Zoo Association tackling?… Read More
They should remember where they came from. There are people who don’t, you know, it’s the old story. If you don’t remember the past, you’re going to repeat it again. And I would say that that organization has treated, it’s the people who brung them there, the people who brought… Read More
What’s your view regarding the topic, a hot topic, of zoos maintaining elephants in their collections?… Read More
That’s what’s gonna save them, I think nothing else will. Read More
What can then US zoos do, and aquariums, to help upgrade developing countries with their zoos?… Read More
Well, you could certainly send experts, your own experts to them, and help them that way. I don’t know what else, you know, truthfully you can do. When you were with AAZPA, but now there’s the same Zoo Association, just different. Read More
Are they making a difference?… Read More
I’d like to say yes, but I honestly think not. Some, they may some I shouldn’t, you know there may be some, they may have done some things that are helpful, that are good, but it’s the whole story. I mean honestly, it’s the whole story of saving the forests,… Read More
‘Cause that’s where, where else are they gonna go?… Read More
Is there a politician that’s gonna be brave enough to stand up and say, “Well no more, no more. We’re not cutting down any more of those forests,” I doubt it. I wish there were, but I don’t think so. There’s so much money involved, and so much money that… Read More
If there were no place in the wild, you know, their place. Where is their place? That’s their place. You worked- I’m sorry, that should be. You’ve worked with SSPs and the taxonomy advisory groups, prosimians to great apes. Read More
Are they doing a job that is helping these animals?… Read More
It necessarily is not limited to just the nature maybe within zoos, but how should they be focusing in that aspect?… Read More
Well, if you wanna save the animal, you gotta save its habitat. You can’t divorce the two of them. And the forests are being cut down at record rate, and all over the world, and primates are gonna go with the, as the forest go primates go, that’s their home. Read More
In Brazil, are they gonna stop cutting the forests?… Read More
I think it is a positive because, I think it’s a positive, I don’t know if it’s a necessary thing to do. I think it’s a positive, but you know, the whole, the major, the whole cause of conservation is more important than one, the cause of one animal. I… Read More
Since you’ve had a lot of experience with primates, and other animals, but what would you say a zoo should be doing about primate conservation specifically today?… Read More
Should zoos take up the cause of a specific type of animal in the wild?… Read More