(chuckling) It’s interesting, ’cause you know, as a side, I guess I have always been interested in construction and architecture and design. And so that’s sort of, I don’t know, one of my hobbies I guess, and I love construction. I love physically doing it myself. And when it came… Read More
But when I presented it to them, they said, “Oh, that’s what you want? Oh, we can do that.” And so I really started with the hospital at the zoo, helping out with the design and the construction and the, on the staff at the zoo we had somebody who… Read More
When you first started, there wasn’t a hospital there, was there?… Read More
When did that happen, how did it come about?… Read More
How did you get involved?… Read More
Were there issues, problems, getting it all finalized?… Read More
And Murray Fowler was the one who really spearheaded that, and was most instrumental in getting that off the ground, and starting way back in about 1980, was gathering who would the professionals be, who would be considered the chart of diplomats?… Read More
And then once that’s done, others could become board certified by meeting certain qualifications and then going through testing to do that. And so I was fortunate to be one of the original board certified people, and it was, I think partly because of my publications that I was able… Read More
Did you ever have anybody call you with an animal escape where your reaction was, “Oh my God”?… Read More
Fortunately we have not had any, you know, serious. I mean like that Barbary sheep out, you know, it’s not gonna injure anybody. It’s not like a big cat or you know, a bear or something that could, or some of the primates, that could be potential damage to visitors… Read More
Could you tell us a little more about getting that process off the ground, and what does board certification mean?… Read More
To be board certified in a particular specialty of, whether it’s human medicine or veterinary medicine, you know, you’re board certified as a ophthalmologist, as a obstetrician, as a you know, surgeon, whatever. And so there was no board certification for zoo medicine, and that was something that had to… Read More
We had one Barbary sheep that actually did get out of the zoo grounds, and was running around Forest Park, a large 2000-acre park, which our security was following, or was going, and I was in their truck, you know, chasing it all across the golf courses and so forth. Read More
Do these things sometimes happen late at night, or mostly during when keepers are there?… Read More
Well, that one was during the day. I think most of them were during the day, not late at night. Read More
But now, how are we gonna pick up this, you know, three, 4000-pound animal and get it back in its enclosure?… Read More
We can’t get a forklift in there. We can’t get anything in there, and what do we, so fortunately there was a trash dumpster that was right next to it. We’d kinda wake the rhino up and behind the trash dumpster, push, push, get him a little bit further, and… Read More
The rhinoceros escape, and most animal escapes, people think of animal escapes as getting out and running around the city, or whatever. They get out of their enclosure, but they’re not out of their building usually, and they’re not out of their, you know, usually. The rhino, I assume that… Read More
It was about 3:00 in the morning, And, what are we gonna do, you know,?… Read More
We can dart it. I mean, it’s just sleeping there. I could even almost reach over and just give it a hand injection of something. Read More