However, the dart’s a pretty good size, and it hits with some impact. It’s fine for a large animal, but a small animal, it’s a little bit, can be tough. At the time we made some darts, we’d seen some that somebody had had put together using the plastic disposable… Read More
What was the plane of anesthesia?… Read More
How much, what dosage did you use?” And so forth. And that had to get sent back to the company all the time to get more of the product. Maybe what you’re referring to is, at one point, it just was such a fabulous drug, except I used it on… Read More
You know, why didn’t the animal, why is the animal now having ataxia?… Read More
And publishing those details, or doing, what was going on then? You were?… Read More
Well yes, part of the arrangement with the drug company, they provided the drug, but I had to always provide a sheet, you know, “Well, how long did it take to become immobilized?… Read More
What were you doing with that and why?… Read More
Well again, the big difference with zoo medicine compared to I think, domestic animal medicine is that you’re usually always anesthetizing the animal. You’re immobilizing the animal, I guess. Difference being immobilizing is keeping it so that you could do something to it. Anesthetizing means that it’s not gonna have… Read More
And so CI-744 was, today it’s on the market as a product called Tilazol. But at that time it was extremely valuable immobilizing so many different species that really went down well, and after you were finished with your procedure, recovered well. So it did not have a specific antagonist,… Read More
So the zoo was looking for grants, getting grants, bringing people in, or it was in house?… Read More
A lot of it was in house. We would always, if there was grants available, we would work on those. But we didn’t have a whole lot of time to put granting applications together. Read More
And one of your other research things was anesthetics?… Read More
And if you had particular requirements, if you wanted certain things to be saved, looking for answers for medical problems for people. You know, the National Cancer Institute utilized a lot of the tissues there, and we started saving. “Oh, how do you want it saved, what do you want?”… Read More
You did some research also then in reproduction?… Read More
We did a lot of reproduction research. Initially, I think zoos are a little bit hesitant to say, “Well, we’re gonna do research on our animals.” I mean, that’s not kinda just accepted, and it’s like, “But well, wait a minute. We’re gonna do research on reproduction so, because there’s… Read More
Were you still just treating the animals and, or you had help now. Well, we’re still treating the animals, still doing a lot of the clinical work, but also publishing and trying to do various research, and training I guess always, I was always training people. And you talked about… Read More
Could you talk about some of those initiatives, like the tissue bank?… Read More
The tissue bank was something that actually had been started way back with Joel Wallach, and Barry Commoner, I guess. I mean that was part of the initial grant, which of course by this time had run out. But I felt it was a valuable thing to do, and we… Read More
Did the people at the zoo, the curatorial staff, the veterinary group, did they think, “Hmm, what’s gonna happen here, we don’t have a zoo person?” Or was there any pushback?… Read More
I think there might have been a little bit, but since they knew that Charlie was the person in charge of really running the animal portion of the zoo, Charlie didn’t have the title, but he was essentially assistant director. I mean, he was the one who called the shots. Read More