So it’s been improving, very, very slowly, but improving. The good example, a typical example of excellent exhibit being in the Bronx Zoo, what you call the gorilla forest. That’s a masterpiece. Before reaching to that gorilla area, they have that okapi exhibit. Very well done. But again, knowledge probably… Read More
Don’t be hypocritical. Period. Come to think of it, Hagenbeck family had a tradition of being animal dealers. And zoo people. Now, you’ve written extensively about the evolution of zoo exhibits. What would you say, as you mentioned Hagenbeck. Read More
What would you say have been the high points, based on your research?… Read More
High point?… Read More
What do you see as the cause of this change, and how has the role of individual dealers or companies changed with respect to the development of modern zoos?… Read More
Animal dealers are there because there are customers. Supply and demand. If there hadn’t been zoos or circuses, animal dealers were not there. Didn’t even exist. They provided animals for us, so the basis of the exotic animal collection was really built upon the animals sold to us. Earlier zoo… Read More
In the process of shooting them, how many adult great apes were blown away, including the mother, before stealing one little baby?… Read More
And that baby, from one hand to the other, may have died some way, in other words, to make long story short. Before the little baby gorilla arrived at the zoo, how many adults and also baby gorillas had been wasted, you don’t know. After the baby arrives at the… Read More
That, today’s generation should know, that before the first baby was born, how many hundred had been wasted and killed. Today’s gorillas in captivity all came from that stock of a wasteful, cruel past. You have to realize that. When you talk about that, the relationship of zoos and aquariums… Read More
I think we are repeating ourselves, but anyway. Without, let’s give an example of propagation of great apes in captivity. It is common to hear about a gorilla birth in a zoo, no longer it makes a front page story. Maybe front page, a little article at the bottom of… Read More
And kidnap, or steal the baby from the dead mother. Read More
To continue on that, you did make a comment about, is it generational chauvinism?… Read More
Yes. Which dictates that the current generation is superior to all past generations. Past is all bad, and there is nothing to learn from our predecessors. Read More
Can you expand upon that a little more?… Read More
No such thing. So that is one area that needs to be looked at seriously. Nowadays, it’s a common practice to hire people fresh off college campus, who might assume that education is now, my education is now over, I have a bachelor’s degree. Bad start. You have to know… Read More
How do you make them aware of little they know?… Read More
That’s a challenge. Big challenge. Read More
That has to be corrected. Awareness is important, but our predecessors, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, did best they can with what they had, just as we do today. We do our best with what we have, knowledge, technology, whatever. So, bringing in the circus, there’s a difference. It’s… Read More
Have you ever heard of zoo historical society?… Read More
I would say staff, as well the public, are a component, peaceful component, of the environment, as opposed to a friend or enemy. How to be a peaceful component, it’s up to you, the keeper, the curator. It has been said that many newer, younger zoo and aquarium professionals are… Read More