Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 507
Did they you know, what about the feed?… Read More
Did they you know, what about the feed?… Read More
You know, did we get our feed from a different supplier?” You know, “No, nobody sprayed anything. Nobody changed any of the stuff they normally clean.” I said, “Well, we gotta stop whatever we’re feeding them right now.” And you know, I thought it must be in the hay, because… Read More
Did they spray something different?… Read More
Did they, you know, did they use a different cleaner in there?… Read More
Why isn’t it doing this or that?” But one of the things that really came home was, we had these stone sheep and there was a herd, probably about 10 or 12 of them, and one died. They all looked perfectly normal, and it was just dead in the cage. Read More
And they all looked, I mean, you examine them, what’s going on?… Read More
And you know, I got involved with our veterinary staff. “What, I mean, this can’t be something infectious. I mean, it just doesn’t go that fast. It has to be something environmental. Read More
“What’s wrong with this animal?” I mean usually, you know, “Why isn’t it, what’s wrong?… Read More
Why isn’t it eating?… Read More
And I said, “Well, can’t we at least try to castrate, and see if that will change it?” Because that’s what happened at a number of zoos way back then. I mean, those things unheard of today, but that’s what was taking place. And unfortunately we were not successful in… Read More
How did you deal, if you ever did, with medical mysteries at the zoo, if you had any?… Read More
Well, I think every time you’re evaluating an animal, I mean your diagnostics, it’s a mystery. Read More
And so it’s a, open up the abdomen and get in there, to remove the testicles. And he had been successful in doing a couple of them on Asian elephants. And we, I discussed it with the veterinary school, with the anesthesiologists there, with the surgeons who did equine medicine,… Read More
And he was so aggressive that when they’d put him out in the yard, he would charge towards everything. He especially hated our security vehicle, it would throw, I mean we couldn’t have him on display. He would throw his feces at all the visitors, and broke a couple of… Read More
And the director had already made the decision to euthanize that animal, ’cause we couldn’t get rid of it otherwise, you know?… Read More
But you were involved with castration of an elephant?… Read More
There was a time way back, again, this would’ve been in the 19, that would’ve been its second year that I was at the zoo. It was ’72 or so. Very, very few zoos had male elephants, nobody had bulls. And we had, especially not African bull elephants. A couple… Read More
Well, of course Dr. Gilula was there. The specialist who does those things were there. And Dr. Ford was there, who was there just in case that cheetah needed some kind of surgery, you know, that he was going to help on a Sunday morning. So I of course made… Read More
I mean, and this isn’t unusual. A number of zoos have had a lot of consultants that have helped, but we did have to come in the back elevator. Now you’ve indicated that working with elephants medically sometimes can be very, have its own unique things, ’cause of the size… Read More
Oh yeah, yeah. No, that was just a local veterinary hospital. But Barnes Hospital is part of Washington University, BJC it’s called now. Barnes, Children’s and Jewish Hospital are all one big, huge conglomerate, part of Washington U Medical School. And I mentioned before we had these consultants that we… Read More