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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

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Yeah, no, we never did that. We, we never did that. I think we have a room in the hospital where somebody could stay overnight if there was a issue there. But it’s not a, not a big room or anything. And I can amused for several things, but we… Read More

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What kind of mistakes?… Read More

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You mentioned in the building a place for visiting scientists. Did you ever do that As They do in your own?… Read More

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There wasn’t a park commission and I wouldn’t go to every city council meeting, but if there was a zoo item, I was there. And we had quite an issue with master planning and stuff. So I was there quite a bit. And, and so occasionally I had to talk… Read More

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Always got along, all friend, all friendly people. We got along together and again, we traveled to different zoos together because I think it was important to commissioners. And now the Zoo society course, they go on a private plane to, to different zoos. They came to Lincoln Park last… Read More

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And I, oh, I thought that was kind of cool idea. That’s kind of forward thinking. And this one commissioner came in there and said, no, we’re not gonna do it. Read More

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Well, we’ll build another one. So, and he was absolutely right. It would’ve been a disaster. And we built a new education center that was much nicer. So, you know, they made some decisions pretty much different than I would’ve made. But for the most part, they actually made the… Read More

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Let’s tear it down. I said, no, we can’t. What do you mean?… Read More

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And what we were gonna do, and in the planning process, and I didn’t really have koalas in it because they’re expensive. I think it costs the zoo 30 or 40,000 a year for one koala get two shipments. One from Florida and one from Arizona of Eucalyptus to feed… Read More

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So they would, they would go there. And as our sister zoo agreement with Wuhan China, the two of the commissioners came on that. So they were very involved and, and particularly with construction project, but obviously they set the fees. They had a re they set an agreement with… Read More

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So we, we added koalas at a late date in that, just because this one commissioner, who by the way had spent a couple of years in Australia, so he said, you can’t have an Australian exhibit without koalas. So we had koalas and we’ve had ’em ever since and… Read More

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But I was always at every meeting. Fortunately I was a landlord for my boss, the park director. ’cause the parks office was in the zoo. It was the old zoo office. But they moved the zoo office in different place and used that for the parks office. So I… Read More

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So all the, I think all the counties in Ohio have Metro park systems and they’re funded by property taxes. So we had three park commissioners appointed by the, they had to have something in every county. Flip a coin. The head probate judge in the county appoints the commissioners. Read More

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Cleveland you mentioned was municipal zoo. Read More

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Well, good communication. Let me, let me tell you a little bit about Cleveland Metro Park Zoo that is different than other zoos as the name applies Metro Parks. So in the turn of the century, Cleveland got to the state legislator and created a thing called that counties could… Read More

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What do you think is the most effective way to deal with elected officials and municipal bureaucrats in order to help develop and manage the zoo today?… Read More

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You know, we, Chris, we, we have good primatologists that were able to figure it out and get it done. And, and it’s just such a success story. I just can’t stop talking about it because it’s so amazing. The other cute thing that, that with gorillas, like all people,… Read More

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It looks just like a human female. He was expecting he’d see something a little different, but he said, no, it’s just, I knew exactly what I was looking at. So that’s a good thing zoos can do. I mean, most zoos have a dentist and a, you know, different… Read More

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They flew it up here to Cleveland and who took that baby?… Read More

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