I can relate a story though with earthquakes that many, many years ago, in the children’s zoo, we had this bird room that they had a bunch of parrots, it was almost all parrots. And the manager of the children’s zoo was in there. And he said like a few… Read More
Well, you weren’t at the zoo, when you talked to people at the zoo who were there, did they mention anything about the animal’s behavior before the earthquake?… Read More
We certainly did after that. Not that I remember. I don’t remember having an earthquake plan. I mean, after that, I guess it was years later. I don’t remember, AZA wound up wanting to do one of the sessions at national conference was emergency contingent plans for various things that… Read More
Did the zoo have an earthquake contingency emergency plan?… Read More
We actually could have opened up like two days later, but we were closed for a couple days just to make sure, fail safe to make sure everything was okay. Compared to other places in the city, we were lucky. Read More
It happened so late. And then it happened like at five o’clock in the afternoon, evening, a little after five, there wasn’t a lot of daylight. There wasn’t a lot of people at the zoo. We got some people in, started looking at things, when we saw that the collection… Read More
The thing that I always got the kick out of is, I don’t know how long after the quake happened. I don’t remember if there was after shocks, I walked into my daughter’s bedroom and in her room, we had a five gallon aquarium with goldfish in it, and I’m… Read More
And the house shook like I never felt it before. I’d been in the Bay area for 10 years at the time, had many earthquake, never felt an earthquake could that, I went running to my neighbors to make sure everything was okay. My wife was on a walk, we… Read More
Yes, I missed the ball game. I was sitting, waiting for the ball game. I was home when the earthquake happened, I’ll just give you a little side note in terms of my personal experience at the house. When it happened, I was sitting at my home and I had… Read More
In 1989, San Francisco had an earthquake. Read More
Can you give us some idea what happened before and after?… Read More
If I’m building it in the 2000s, would I’ve done the same thing or multiple yards, things change. Well, the problem is having multiple Silverbacks in the same exhibit, in the presence of females. And we always had that. Add to that, SSP in terms of an animal, that came… Read More
Sunshine was a gorilla, first gorilla that was born at San Francisco. He was named Sunshine because he was born during the day, out in the middle of a sunny day at San Francisco. And he was actually, his mother died shortly after he was born. And he lived with… Read More
How successful was it and who is Sunshine?… Read More
How’d that come about?… Read More
This is real case, this not me just picking something out and we’re designing exhibits for Kamodo dragons, no one at zoo had any experience with, and trying to come up with budgets and this and what we’re gonna do, you know?… Read More
And then all of a sudden, three months later, they’re moving on, and back to something on the master plan. I personally am not a master plan advocate. In 1983, you said Sunshine, which was a prime breeding potential to Ohio. Read More
You know, it’s one of those. Okay, and though it’s not in the master plan, suddenly for X amount of months, you’re putting in an unbelievable amount of effort in terms of trying to figure out how are you gonna display Kamodo dragons. Read More
And, and San Francisco is very good, was very good at master plans. Numerous master plans were made. My criticism of master plans are, we never followed them. I mean, they were almost well, they were meaningless, I guess there was some meaning to them, economically, if the city was… Read More
What should should we be accomplishing?… Read More