Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 17
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I was on a different track, you know?… Read More
And when I was a graduate student in psychology at the University of Oklahoma, the person who I, my major professor who had worked at the Yerkes Lab for primates saw that the Oklahoma City, saw in the newspaper that the Oklahoma City Zoo had just got in two young… Read More
But a number of years when I, being in the zoo business, I decided that I had to go back and see it. And it was something that I probably shouldn’t have done, (chuckling) but it left a great deal to be desired at that time. But I know they… Read More
Did he take you to see the Bronx Zoo?… Read More
Well, we went to the Bronx Zoo on occasion, on occasion. Went to Central Park Zoo also on occasion in New York. And I enjoyed those places, but the one I really was most familiar with and went to a lot was the Prospect Park Zoo. When did you first… Read More
I did have that, and had some goldfish, yeah. Read More
That was it. (chuckling) Did your parents take you to the zoo, or what’s your kind of recollection of that?… Read More
Yes my parents always, my father actually took me to the zoo, to zoos in New York all the time. I mean, I was with, going to the zoos there, I mean really and truly, I would say at least once or twice a month. And I went to the… Read More
Were you interested in animals when you were growing up in grammar school, or high school or?… Read More
Yes, I was always very interested in animals, yeah. Did you collect them, did you have- I had a toad once, I had a toad, (laughing) but my mother wouldn’t let me keep it. That’s what the whole problem was so, never had a dog when I was a kid. Read More
A little, one of those little red-legged ones, you know, that you buy in the dime store?… Read More
And what was your childhood like?… Read More
What kind of activities did you do as a kid?… Read More
Well by childhood, what do you mean? (laughing) What age?… Read More
Okay, my name is Saul Kitchener, and I was born March 22nd, 1938, in Passaic, New Jersey. Read More
Only time having a problem was first two wild horses were born. The stallion used to (indistinct) protective. It was just like a day old. (indistinct) Then took him to the hospital and took care of him. And so we decided that we (indistinct) there was little time. But he… Read More
Then I guess he didn’t know any better. He got the horses together and we got them bred. But he had a way with the deer, with Bison, with horses, they trusted him they would follow him anywhere. The pere David deer were so flighting (indistinct) packed in a stall… Read More
Pere David deer heard where very flighted deer. Very flighted. You had to be real careful working with them. One of them in the heard crashed into a fence and (indistinct) they hated each other. I don’t know what the cause of was they couldn’t stand each other. Even one… Read More
We put him on the deer range and wild horses there. We moved the horses to the rare animal range, (indistinct) this fellow that was from the farm in ohio. He had experience with eqquus. He’s afraid of the horses. What are you gonna do about that, nothing you can… Read More