And he’s building a 600 acre place up near Montgomery. He’s already fenced it already. He’s gonna build a drive through park up there. And he’s building another one near Nashville, so he’s spreading, he’s doing the right thing. What he’s doing, he’s taken groups of animals that are totally… Read More
I don’t know. Well, actually I think I heard Eric say that he- May look at it. I think he might be interested in having an AZA accreditation. But he will not tolerate AZA dictating what he’s gonna do with this stuff. If he can’t do that, he won’t join. Read More
So you don’t see the zoo going back to AZA?… Read More
No, CAA. But would you like to see- We got away from AZA. All right. Read More
It AZA accreditation now?… Read More
It has. Read More
So do you think you would like to see the zoo, you talked about this continuation of the legacy and the things that you built, would you like to see the zoo again have AZA accreditation?… Read More
Maybe 20, maybe 15, 20. We know a lot of zoo people who they always were at the conferences and they also always were traveling around the United States to other zoos. And for 20 years, we were there at the park for seven days a week at our own… Read More
How many zoos do you think you’ve been to in your life?… Read More
Are there zoos that you have looked to to say, “Yeah, they’re doing a good job?” Some these zoos, like Frankford Zoo is a good zoo, Amsterdam Zoo is a pretty good zoo, I think, of course, San Diego is a great zoo too. Read More
Are there zoos nationally or internationally that you’ve admired the things that they’ve done, whether it be in exhibitry or the way they’ve managed it or the way their zoo directors have managed it?… Read More
Oh, yeah. Very much so. Yeah, they’re doing it. It’ll do about 400,000 people this year. And our economic impact is over $10 million just because the zoo is there. So it’s a big issue in our community. Now, you’ve traveled around in Africa and you’ve been around. Read More
Does the community still continue to be supportive?… Read More
Probably my family, my son, our sons. I’m gonna go with the zoological filter. I think the legacy of my being has been the zoo, that’s what I hoped to accomplish. And so far it’s there and it’s got bronze plaques of us there, so I think it’s there to… Read More
We’ve talked about things you wanted to do but didn’t accomplish, but what is your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
What would you say is, at least one, of your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
No, it angered me, made me angry. Not surprised, I was angry. I was angry at myself for bringing him aboard, and I was right. Read More
Was that a surprise to you?… Read More
They were doing things that didn’t work. Read More
I didn’t lose it. He didn’t. The society lost it. The society lost it. They lost it because they were hiding venomous snakes. The director there was hiding venomous snakes they weren’t supposed to have, no anti-venom. And he lost accreditation and that’s what happened. I didn’t lose accreditation, we… Read More