Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 718
What do you know about this profession that you’ve devoted your life to?… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you’ve devoted your life to?… Read More
I don’t know, I’m not sure. I don’t think the standards are that different in either one of those, I really don’t. Read More
Do you think there’s a difference between the accreditation of both of the organizations or is that part of the difference between the two organizations, because you’ve been in AZA and you’ve been ZAA?… Read More
Yeah, a very good director. A very nice, man. So he’s not the day to day director of the zoo, he is more the owner of the zoo and he’s hired a director. He’s hired a director. But he owns a home close by and he’s there often. So right… Read More
And he’s got a good director now too, doesn’t he?… Read More
He talks to me and I talk to him and we have lunch once in a while. Hell, I’ve known him since he was a college boy. So he does a good job at the zoo, he’s put a lot of money into it and improved the facility. Read More
Does he seek you as a mentor?… Read More
Do you give him advice?… Read More
Does he come to you?… Read More
Hoofstock, antelopes. More than just hoofstock, but yes, hoofstock mostly. So it may be in the zoos future to be AZA, but that’s up to the new director. Yes. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Are you speaking about hoofstock?… Read More
And he’s building a 600 acre place up near Montgomery. He’s already fenced it already. He’s gonna build a drive through park up there. And he’s building another one near Nashville, so he’s spreading, he’s doing the right thing. What he’s doing, he’s taken groups of animals that are totally… Read More
I don’t know. Well, actually I think I heard Eric say that he- May look at it. I think he might be interested in having an AZA accreditation. But he will not tolerate AZA dictating what he’s gonna do with this stuff. If he can’t do that, he won’t join. Read More
So you don’t see the zoo going back to AZA?… Read More
No, CAA. But would you like to see- We got away from AZA. All right. Read More
It AZA accreditation now?… Read More
It has. Read More
So do you think you would like to see the zoo, you talked about this continuation of the legacy and the things that you built, would you like to see the zoo again have AZA accreditation?… Read More
Maybe 20, maybe 15, 20. We know a lot of zoo people who they always were at the conferences and they also always were traveling around the United States to other zoos. And for 20 years, we were there at the park for seven days a week at our own… Read More