Probably not a wild orca, wild born orca in any of these facilities today. What people know about them is what they’ve learnt through marine parks that have kept the animals and they’ve learned what wonderful, intelligent animals they are though these marine parks and I think the marine parks… Read More
They still have the orcas and what are we gonna do with them?… Read More
I think probably, I come back to elephants again. Probably the realistic program that might involve working overseas range of countries with the elephants. Or just doing better with them in this country. There’s so much we don’t know about them and we have a good program. They need to… Read More
What issues, would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More
I don’t know where they are, no one seemed to know. I haven’t looked into it seriously but seemed to have scattered to the winds and that is unfortunately the way a lot of these places have been and not one of them has been successful. Wild oak, Mr Hillman… Read More
Where are all those animals today?… Read More
Most of these people have not prepared for the long run it seems. Even some that that we thought had made plans for the future, turned out they did not make adequate plans for the future. Whether its the guano plantation in Florida or I can’t think of the mans… Read More
Do you see that those institutions that they create are better in surviving the years than institutions like the Bronx zoo which has been around a long time?… Read More
And that to me is my biggest concern that I would have today for the species. In the past, there have been private individuals that have sponsored through their wealth their own nature preserves, their own zoos. Read More
I think the biggest concern today is for the elephants. I think were in better shape with the rhinos although Sumatran rhinos are gonna be an animal were gonna lose in our lifetime I’m afraid. If there are any left today its not more than a handful as far as… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding these concerns?… Read More
We shouldn’t. We should be a role model. Its because of our success with them that these animals survived today. Père David’s deer, there are thousands of Père David deer in China and a hundred years ago, fifty years ago, there were no Père David deer in China. This is… Read More
Why does a country like America, the United States have species that are endangered?… Read More
I think look at the species like California cronder, black footed ferret, those are two American animals. Shame on us for having endangered species in this country. Read More
What would you say to those people who still believe than zoos are nothing more than places where they cage animals?… Read More
But now all in a group. Read More
And I was afraid he would take the nursing away from the infant and she had tried everything she could do in the book to distract him, tease him, play with him, turn her back on him do whatever she could, move away from him, to keep him from nursing… Read More
So once we knew that the females were going to protect them, and that the males were going to protect them then the juvenilis went in. And we raised we had two women that were raising the babies they had raised thirty babies and that added to a lot of… Read More
Fine with them they never bothered them, played with them, protected them and the juvenilis were last because they were juvenilis and they were the ones that would be most likely to grab the baby and make it scream and cry and tease them, you know?… Read More
We got them up to that point and they went in with this one female and she got along with them fine. They were content being around her and then we had another female and told her that everybody was in there except the male. Oh I’m sorry, and the… Read More