Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 573
So those are the two that are exempt from having to do a permit. So I wish we didn’t have it, but I understand why we haven’t, I don’t, I don’t think it would be easy to combine the two. Read More
So those are the two that are exempt from having to do a permit. So I wish we didn’t have it, but I understand why we haven’t, I don’t, I don’t think it would be easy to combine the two. Read More
No, that, you know, relate to each other. I don’t think that would be, be, work out that way, but I, I wish ZAA didn’t have to exist, but it’s better than nothing. And again, I think those people don’t wanna be a member. Lot of them don’t want to… Read More
So there’s sort of a, a a of a minor league, you know, so could we have two organizations?… Read More
ZAA Yeah, as a, as a minor league. So we have, they have 80 members, we have 250 or 240 members. Read More
Some, some zoo director doesn’t wanna send it there. We usually work out way we, we usually make a compromise. So that, so that keeps people out. Read More
I see the ZAA, is that it?… Read More
Is there room for both?… Read More
I wish there wasn’t. I wish there was just one organization, but it can’t be for a couple of reasons because a z there’s two things that a ZA does that keeps people from joining or becoming a member. One, we have a very strong ethics code and you have… Read More
Well, I, we’ve, we’ve worked, we’ve said this for years and we’ve not been very successful. This is one where we could work with some animal welfare institutions like HSUS. I think we need to be really good about trying to be against, I’ll just call ’em because it’s a… Read More
But I think zoos can be in United States, but also in, in in waza organizations. I think they can be more aggressive about getting zoos, substandard zoos closed. Now what do you do with the animals becomes another issue. You can’t just close the zoo and move the animals… Read More
There are two professional zoo associations, a ZA and z, a zoological association market. Read More
If it’s outside the mission, it’s a little more difficult. So yeah, I think zoo should take a stance on a lot of environmental issues, including expansion of parks and, and that kind of thing. Read More
What issues would you like to see the National and International Zoo Aquarium Association such as a ZA Laa, ZAA be addressing that?… Read More
Well, I think when they can, if they, sometimes the zoo doesn’t have the political clout to make their government do it. I mean, it, it, it can happen. I mean, it certainly, it’s, it’s a little difficult when you’re a, a government run zoo to make any political stance. Read More
We got new hippos and you could see elephants behind the hippos. Well, that was valued. Yeah, this was gonna be very expensive. So that was, we value engineered out and just did elephants. We had some other smaller exhibits like battered foxes and we just had to not do… Read More
Should Zeus be doing anything to help governments protect land masses in Africa and other places?… Read More
I’m trying. We certainly try to design things that’ll work. Hopefully we’ve seen it somewhere else, you know, and, and had it work. It is nice if you, we certainly had to redo things that, that didn’t work as well as we thought. Or the, the barrier was too low… Read More
Our old bear grottos, the keepers had to get down and almost on their hands and knees to crawl out. ’cause there was never any door, you know, for the keepers. So you don’t wanna make those kind of mistakes. You need those doors for keepers to walk out. There’s… Read More
But so that, I think that was something. So I I I’m sure there were other mistakes. I probably hired some people that I might’ve got somebody better at the time, but it all, it all worked out. And trying to think of other mistakes. I’m sure there were a… Read More
Do you feel sometimes that zoos don’t have the luxury of doing portions of exhibits for proof of concept to say this is gonna work because they have a budget and they can’t do extra things to see if something will work and then throw it away if they don’t… Read More