He learned how to throw a hon a lariat and, and how to take animals like that and safely grab them and cinch them. And we’d never had to mobilize it. But there are so many keepers out there now that don’t have that experience. And it, it means they’re… Read More
But when you immobilize an animal and it stays there a long time, you’re extending the period of stress. And that’s harder on the animal than just doing this. Now obviously there’s certain species you don’t grab, but yeah, it was that lack of experience and training that we didn’t… Read More
And when you’re done, we expect you to be able to do stuff without us being around. And that’s how we did it. And that’s not being done anymore, that I know of, Again, the profession. Read More
If I get his feet off the ground, he’s gonna stop fighting. Which he did. And vets came in and did that, and they were like, oh wow. Holy cow. And I’m going, you’ve worked at the zoo for 20 years and, and you’ve never done this. And of course… Read More
You can buy it at Home Depot or any place else. And it’s made up of reeds. It’s all wired together and it’s very flexible. And I said, I want two people with me. And you take the reed fence in, and as you go into the stall, you unfurl… Read More
You know what reed fence is?… Read More
So I, I went into the stall and it simple thing, right?… Read More
Well, he needs to draw blood, he needs to take some samples, and he is gonna do a fecal sample. And I said, so why are we, IM immobilizing the animals to do that. Well, it’s dangerous. And it’s like, it’s an eight x, it weighs 120 pounds. And it’s,… Read More
You have an immobilized it, given it a chemical, it’s gotta come up from, or the vet has to give it antagonist to bring it back up. That’s much harder to me on the animal system. And it’s much safer just to grab it, get the blood done, and you’re… Read More
Oh, well, we’re gonna have the vets come in and they’re going to immobilize it and they we’re gonna do this. Read More
I said, well, what, what’s the vet gonna do?… Read More
And I think I mentioned earlier that we as mentors probably didn’t do our job the way we should have because if we were doing that, we would get them trained to the point where they weren’t afraid of the animals. They would respect them, what their capabilities were, but… Read More
And I went out to the staff and the manager, I said, okay, what’s the plan here?… Read More
Well, no, but you know, we studied it and it’s like, you know, a little bit of knowledge could be a dangerous thing. And so we had that group and, and then the group that I really began to hire, I, I would get some people, ’cause Florida was a… Read More
Do you, do you have a degree in nutrition?… Read More
You’re physically gonna be challenged because it’s hard work. You’re gonna be raking and cleaning. Yeah, you’re gonna be handling animals and stuff. And they go, well, yeah, but you know, I wanna create diets and I wanna do this. And it’s like, well, hold on. Read More
You spoke a little facing early career keepers or curators To two curators or No, just early career people who are zookeepers or early career people who start this tour. Well, I’ll tell you what I’ve seen. When I, when I hired at Miami and I started hiring people in… Read More
Tom Mehan, our, my bed at, at Brookfield Zoo did a whole thing on animals, diet zoos. And, and if you really didn’t think they died, then you didn’t think Lassie passed away. But yeah, Lassie kept showing up on TV shows long after the life expectancy of a colic. Read More
You’re talking about things in, in an early career, what would you say are the biggest challenges?… Read More
And it’s still an issue today, unfortunately. Well, bringing this up, so the next que how should zoos be dealing with the deaths of animals, especially charismatic animals with their staffs and the public Honesty is your answer. Stop trying to hide things. Animals in the wild pass away, animals… Read More