That wasn’t Daphne, that was Sally Church. Sally Church gave it to us, but it was from Daphne Sheldrick. And it was a thank you because of something we did, we sold her t-shirts in our gift shop. And the money went to her, whatever it was that Daphne was… Read More
I don’t know numbers, I have no idea. 10 guns over there. They wanted shotguns because they were working in thick bush with these anti-poachers, which is better than just a rifle, one slug. So we did that. I helped raise money to buy a helicopter for Ted Ghost in… Read More
And I got 10 guns?… Read More
Now, you have done a lot of fundraising for other organizations. Can you just give me a little bit about Rhino Ark in Kenya or World Wildlife Fund or Zambia with the guns or Tsavo. You’ve done a lot of other fundraising for these organizations. No, I didn’t know all… Read More
Well, we had partners. Each one of us, the four or five of us had money in the zoo and we kept growing money from that. Or we borrowed money to build a train or carousel or whatever. Our investors, if we had a bad year, we would put in… Read More
What was your operation?… Read More
Were you trying to go to people to give you additional money?… Read More
Was it just through the gate?… Read More
How did you find the funding for the zoo?… Read More
Tell me a little thing about fundraising. You had this initial investment, but now you had to get funds because you were talking about the difficulty. Read More
So at that time. So people came to the zoo in the community, they paid their money, was a positive year?… Read More
Big draw. Biggest draw in the history of the zoo at that time. Read More
Huh?… Read More
But today, we have a baby gorilla from that pair and potential for more. So anyway, Pensacola has a pair of gorillas and a youngster that was born there. Now, when Colossus was at the zoo, as you indicated, he was a big draw. Read More
Ellie, our elephant and Colossus, they were big- Big issues. Big draw. So anyway. Important to the community. Edmond Russ threatened me with a gorilla SSP and all that stuff. I said, “I’ll tell you what you do, you make sure I want a pair of gorillas down there and… Read More
No. Knocked the hell out of him. Big dummy. So we got this female gorilla in and she went by Colossus and just knocked the snot out of him. They lived together, but they never bred. But when Edmond Russ at Cincinnati zoo, he’s a collector, he really is a… Read More
She never liked Colossus, did she?… Read More
Huh?… Read More
Yeah. She never liked Colossus. Read More
Not sure where, was it Cincinnati?… Read More