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Where did you go?… Read More

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I wrote to my childhood hero, and said just come on up. So July 1959, I went to Tokyo for the first time. Internship, you can put it in the resume, but basically it’s shadowing a zookeeper everyday, and also in 1960, I thought was such a glorious job, seriously,… Read More

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So what was your first zoo job?… Read More

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It was an intern?… Read More

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Internship, yes. Read More

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Ordinary elementary school, junior high, high school, and agricultural college in town. And that was, graduating in 1961, 15 years later, back in Oklahoma, I went to one of the regional universities, Northeastern Oklahoma State, for my master’s degree. And you mentioned a person at the zoo that you looked… Read More

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In school, did you have any teachers that had an effect on your life within the zoo world?… Read More

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As far as zoo world, no. As far as biology, a professor who happened to be applied entomologist. Spelled N-A-K-A-J-I-M-A. Dr. Nakajima. Was the one who really taught me basics in biology. Read More

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Ueno Zoo. U-E-N-O. Ueno Zoo, right. Read More

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And what type of schooling did you have?… Read More

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And did you then ultimately as a child get to Tokyo to see the zoo?… Read More

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I was already in my early 20s when I got to see Tokyo, and looked up at my childhood hero, Dr. T-A-D-A-M-I-C-H-I. Tadamichi Koga. Koga is easier to pronounce. K-O-G-A. It was as if a little farm boy looking up at John Wayne. Read More

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And he was the director of the?… Read More

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What was the impression you got?… Read More

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The town I grew up didn’t have a zoo. So it was in my dream, (coughs) excuse me, writing fan mail to the zoo director in Tokyo so forth and so forth. As a little child, I remember on the family vacation going to the next prefect, the next city,… Read More

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Were animals part of your life?… Read More

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It was unfortunate that the family had a history of dysfunctional family syndrome, and wildlife was sort of an escape, or a therapy to read about, and to look at. So if I grew up in an ordinary family, I may not have gotten into zoo business. Read More

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As you were growing up, did you see zoos growing up?… Read More

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And who were your parents, and what did they do?… Read More

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Dad’s name was spelled C-H-I-Z-U-O. Chizuo. A physician. Mother’s name was C-H-I-Y-O-K-O, Chiyoko. A housewife. Read More