Well, (chuckling) when I said that, obviously I didn’t mean that I would actually eat the kangaroo. But it was meant, because it was such an unusual statement, I felt, that it was meant to show people that there was no kangaroo out there at all, and that’s why I… Read More
I mean, that was the whole thing, you know?… Read More
They couldn’t be reached by radio and they were running after this kangaroo, which obviously was incorrect. And I knew it, and everybody else knew it too, and that’s why I said that. Read More
Makes you the proudest?… Read More
Oh, well I think that what makes me the proudest, I think is that, you know, we did things I think, that I helped build a primate collection that was a real good one, a lot of unusual animals in it. I think that the care, being extremely careful about… Read More
How did you regard the media then I guess, and would you have handled it differently in today’s climate?… Read More
What would you say was, what kind of, what would you say was your most significant achievement at Lincoln Park Zoo while you were there?… Read More
What do you consider?… Read More
I think it’s important to make rounds, to be able to make a decision at some time in the future, because if you gotta know what’s going on with the various animals, various exhibits, things like that. Yeah. I think it’s real important to do that. Read More
And we’ll talk later, but did you continue that when you went to San Francisco?… Read More
In a different way, I did. A lot of people thought I didn’t, but I was in that zoo almost every night after hours, yeah. Read More
Was that part of your routine, is to make rounds, and how important do you think that is?… Read More
Well, I think how are you gonna know what’s going, really know what’s going on?… Read More
Responsibility? Well, I think was important to do it, to yeah, I think that I had a responsibility, sure. Increase the knowledge that people had, other people had. Read More
Other people would be in the same position, and why reinvent the wheel, if it’s here in this paper or here in this journal?… Read More
Yes I think, yeah I think I did. You indicated when you were at Lincoln Park that you would go around and see what was going on. Read More
Well, it was that work on the, the work on the bush dogs was with an animal that was unknown, I mean really, an animal that was unknown. I mean, if you ask today people in zoos, what is a South American bush dog, I’ll bet you most of them… Read More
And that’s the reason that it was done, that I did it because just added a little bit of knowledge to the pool of animal animal knowledge, because nothing else, very little really, had been written about bush dogs, and I think very little is known, still known today about… Read More
Did you feel a responsibility in any way, maybe a bad word, to publish things that you saw based on your original things of working with the great apes?… Read More
Were you involved in developing stud books for any various animals or not? Or did you work with them?… Read More