Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 334
They built it apparently. I mean, they did, they built the zoo and they staffed it. They hired the personnel. Read More
They built it apparently. I mean, they did, they built the zoo and they staffed it. They hired the personnel. Read More
You didn’t have control over it as director?… Read More
How has zoos changed?… Read More
And specifically San Francisco, and how do you think that change that you were trying to initiate affected the animals, good, bad indifferent?… Read More
Well, I think that the animals were affected in I think a positive, quite a positive way. I think a positive way, yeah. And of course the story that you told to the public and the people loved to, you know, people liked the zoo and they came out to… Read More
Well, you were breeding of course, trying to breed. Breed them, I mean breed animals. And I think that the, one of things that I was big about was causing, or looking at the population of an animal in all the zoos, like in the United States. You know, it’s,… Read More
What’d you mean, and do think people understood or accepted that statement?… Read More
I don’t know, but I think that, I think that Lincoln Park was a great example. I used to use this, that yeah, there were bars at Lincoln Park. There were gorillas in bars. Well, look at what they were doing. Look how many gorillas they were producing, and the… Read More
And well, they sort of agreed to that, I guess. You know, which they didn’t have to have course anyway, but I didn’t want to make enemies right away. So, but that was okay. But that was just one instance of the thing. Read More
In response to an article in the “Rotarian” magazine, you wrote that, “Zoos may not save all the animals, but they’re going to, but they are going to be able to save a lot of them.” what was your zoo and others doing in this regard?… Read More
He’s taking these animals, these are our favorites.” (laughing) So that was one of the first eye-openers sort of, it shouldn’t have been, I guess, but it was to me. But I persevered, I didn’t back down. Read More
I said, “Well,” I told them the reason why, you know?… Read More
Oh, you know, they have common antlers, you know what they are, we had them- Fallow?… Read More
We had fallow deer in a nice exhibit. I mean, it was a good exhibit, but, You know, I don’t think they needed the help. So I just, I said, “You know, we could do a lot better, and it would be better for the public too, I think. But… Read More
So they were saying, “What is he doing, what’s he doing?” The same people who said they want change were saying, “What is he doing?… Read More
Well, I of course, I’ve always thought that it was a big thing in our, or else it should be part of our deal, you know?… Read More
And they didn’t really have a good idea of the kind of animals that they should have. In other words, it costs the same amount of money to keep a common antelope say, as it does to keep something rare. Same amount of money. Why not go to the one… Read More
We want you to change this zoo.” And I said, “I will do so, I will do it.” And so I remember getting rid of, (chuckling) I don’t remember what the heck it was that I got rid of. I got rid of some very common deer. Maybe, it was… Read More
There’s nobody to do it. And there was no, like lot of zoos would have educational graphics, you know, and that kind of stuff, which you should have. And there was nobody to do that either. So the first budget I had to deal with, I said I wanted to… Read More
They should have this,” so we got it. (laughing) And that’s, so everything, not everything is unlike Chicago, a lot of it’s the same. And that’s how we got it, and that’s how I got that position. And she did that and she was really, Elizabeth, Linda Taylor, and she… Read More