Interview 14794 – Caption Index: 529
Is there anything that, we haven’t covered that you’d like to mention about zoos, your career, things that were most memorable?… Read More
Is there anything that, we haven’t covered that you’d like to mention about zoos, your career, things that were most memorable?… Read More
Is there anything that we haven’t covered?… Read More
We talk about a dozen subjects over the course of the day. Read More
No, they got together. They were okay together. Yeah, yeah. Read More
Did they ever have an opportunity to get together or never?… Read More
Well, I mean, it didn’t work out for a different reason. I mean, Kelly, unbeknownst to us came in and had TB and she was one of the first elephants with TB, since then, is a more common occurrence than that. And Kelly was a good animal, we had to… Read More
Why’d you think it would work?… Read More
Not well. Read More
Well, I mean, that was the beginning of protective contact. We weren’t going in with them. I mean, we wound up modifying the elephant house with shoots and there were modifications, the doors were changed, electronic doors were put in, there was a shoot that was put in, it wasn’t… Read More
Kelly as a companion, how did that work out?… Read More
Elephants are elephants. By their own evolution and their own hierarchy, they survive by dominance. And, historically think that man was managing elephants through do, I mean, zoos took, whether it be elephants in the wild in India, how they were worked or on surfaces, used those methods on their… Read More
Why do you think Tinkerbell acted the way she did?… Read More
Well, she actually attacked, two people got hurt with her at that time. They were moving her, Tinkerbell was, there was no protected contact in those days. We’d go in with the animals and move them and then work with, and two people went in, they were doing a medical… Read More
Can you kind of tell me what happened?… Read More
I have to admit, that changed over the years. I mean, at Evansville, I worked so much, we did a lot of work with Capybara, I had never worked with them at Lincoln Park prior to them. I mean, I enjoyed them, pangolins, I was working with earlier in my… Read More
You had mentioned elephants that had left San Francisco zoo. You had an elephant named Tinkerbell. There was an incident in 1988 where she attacked her keepers. Read More
Did you ever have a favorite animal?… Read More
Well, I said earlier as a survivor, you know, Mike Sulak was a good guy. He worked with a lot of different people, I help them, they help me with collections. Maybe a few of them learned a few things from me over the years, whether they have Mike Sulakism,… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you devoted so much time of your life to?… Read More