We were working with Sumatra Rhino people over there and it was a man the head of wildlife for Malaysia who was responsible for (indistinct) ultimately. Borneo, a malayan borneo. He was very kind of cool and stand offish in the beginning but after we got to know each other… Read More
I think it really really important that you establish a good relationship, trusting relationship with the people you work with, wherever it is. I saw it black foot ferrets in Wyoming. Once I got a good relationship going with the chief veterinarian that was the chief of the whole program… Read More
Have you found then that sometimes its the relationship as you’ve developed with people that helped advance programs as opposed to the program itself which made sense but you had to have that relationship?… Read More
I new Vladimir Spinsin the director of the Moscow zoo and I wrote to him and I said, “Do you have any Siberian polecats?” In collection we need some. I wanted to send them to Wyoming for the people of Wyoming for some experience with animals that may be easier… Read More
So I went out to Wyoming with another fella from the reserve and we met with them and we started going on regular meetings out there or whatever. Discussing the ferrets and we kept telling them the numbers were going down, we know when they going down. Why don’t we… Read More
Yes, yeah that was one kick it had happened in Wyoming. Black footed ferrets. We got asked to be involved in the black footed ferrets because in 1981, Shep the dog ranch dog brought home a dead ferret and so couple of biologists started looking for ferrets. They needed support… Read More
So, in your opinion how throughout your career, politics internationally or nationally or locally has had an affect on the zoo operation?… Read More
That one was open and express enthusiasm towards us as the other two people did. It was unfortunate that nothing came from it. Read More
Yeah, the other two people they were very excited about it and one of the behaviorist and one was the director of the parks in Addis Ababa. Which included a zoo, small run down zoo and they has shalatas and (indistinct) baboons next to each other and the cages were… Read More
Were the researchers that you talked to from Ethiopia amazed that you had been able to, without their help accomplish this?… Read More
And all I wanted to get was trap a number of animals.. one of our biologists that was working in Ethiopia made us aware that farmers were killing 12 – 15 shalatas a week. In Ethiopia, one group of those animals up to the Bronx and the head of wildlife… Read More
So we have a nice big primate inhibit, outdoor exhibit, animal that are endangered on exhibit, every day of the year, they’re active. They’re impressive animals and we had a few other things we did with them to make it more of a blend a lot of different water birds… Read More
Shalatas live in areas like that, high in the mountains where its cold and shalatas are happier probably out in the snow than they are out in the 85 degree or 95 degree day in the summer and if you see them in Ethiopia, they’re in groups and they are… Read More
We didn’t send them to you.” I said, “Well, we got two from Brazil, two from Australia, we had one from Switzerland and we had four from Cincinnati. I just went around where they all came from and we worked very hard at getting them to live together. We had… Read More
“Well how’d you get these animals?… Read More
Have it that for that (indistinct) and they didn’t need to explore beyond the boundary. I did not agree with that but anyway it was nice to hear that he thought it was pretty well done and I liked it. I had the chance some years ago to show some… Read More
I remember taking George Shaller, great biologist. Take him to see our snow leopard exhibit after we put the snow leopards on display, he was in town, I don’t know where he was working, probably working in china. He came down and took him to see the snow leopards. Then… Read More
You’ve done a lot of things in your career, what would you say had been some of your proudest accomplishments?… Read More
Well, the area zoo should be doing education, and we need to do what ever we can to educate our visitors, educate the children that visit the zoo. Where we going and why. So many city zoos don’t have money to support conservation overseas they not gonna give the zoo… Read More
Of those things, every zoo can’t do everything, If you had to rank them, what should zoos mostly be doing as opposed to trying to do everything?… Read More