Well, one of our trustees had been the president of the board was resigning or retiring and he offered Conway a package of money to do with what he wanted and Conway said we’ll fix up the old cow barn at the farm in the zoo we gonna fix up… Read More
How did you come to live in the zoo and what was living in the zoo, what were the good things or the bad things?… Read More
A gorilla exhibit. We needed to badly do something for gorillas and I did a big thing every year until I got it. And I did. He would find the money and then we would do them and it was fun doing it that way. A lot of time. You… Read More
I had more going for me in New York than I could have any place in the country. In the world probably. I had a boss who listened to me and we fought. We had our fights but he listened to me. He found money for me. We used to… Read More
Why?… Read More
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But it would have been fun for a time run it my way, if I ran the zoo. (giggling) Did you ever think about wanting to be a zoo director?… Read More
And you’re smiling. I went after quite a number of years at the Bronx, I went because they called me to the San Diego zoo. They wanted to bring me out there to work in the San Diego zoo and I remember on the plane flying out there thinking, I… Read More
What were the cons?… Read More
What were the pros?… Read More
Sent them down from the Bronx, (mumbling) We talked about the zoo director you worked for, Bill Conway, how was it to work for Bill Conway?… Read More
We were holding them and we could tell that story while we were holding the Mexican wolves, about you know, hopefully they’ll be heading for (indistinct) and they were. Read More
You’re not going to breed everything. In the Bronx we didn’t attempt to breed everything. It was something, we were just a holding institute. We didn’t have a lot of space for Cheetahs for example. But we got to hold cheetahs, there were more in other zoos. We exhibited the… Read More
But where is the breeding program?… Read More
I believe so. Read More
Should every zoo strive to have a breeding program?… Read More
Do what you do and do it really well and get into it. Get into it with SSP programs, that’s the Species Survival Programs and get involved, really get into very special efforts and work that way. Then if you want to have a sister park in Africa work on… Read More
Find a focus. Find something that, when you have some interest, some ability, you can afford to do it, and focus on it. Maybe it’s education, and you get a sister zoo in India or Africa, and you supply them with educational material. Write up material using their language, their… Read More
Now you’ve worked for a very large institution, the Bronx Zoo but in your opinion, what can a small or medium zoo, municipal-size zoo, do today to be involved in wildlife conservation nationally, or internationally, or locally?… Read More
At least in probably the first summer, I got the crummy jobs, the junk jobs. If a house had a cellar, then it had cellar door and cellar windows. I painted the windows and I painted the door, and it didn’t matter too much if some of the paint got… Read More