Interview 20952 – Caption Index: 413
What’s their ecological niche?… Read More
What’s their ecological niche?… Read More
Would you recommend the zoo, aquarium field to a young person with sincere interest in wildlife and conservation today and why?… Read More
Yeah, I would. But I would really suggest to them to go off and do a course in wild animal management first, so that they really get exposed to animals in the wild. I think a classical zoology degree does not do much for understanding the needs of animals that… Read More
And one of their things they have to do is they kind of have to climb up Mount Kilimanjaro, but they always have to… They get dropped off somewhere in the middle of the Serengeti with a rifle and three bullets and get picked up five days later or something… Read More
Was there any one piece or important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
I think Lyn de Alwis was my guru from Sri Lanka is probably the person who’s had the most impact on my zoo career as opposed to my father. My father taught me the respect for animal life, and Lyn taught me reinforced that respect for animal life, but also… Read More
You talked a little about elephants and do you think that zoos can maintain elephants and how it should be done correctly?… Read More
Yeah, I think so. But it’s a sort of a bit of an irony I think, really. Technically, I mean the Asian elephant, not the African elephant, the Asian elephant is a working animal as is a horse, as opposed to wild horses. And so they are in captivity and… Read More
I think there is a role of in with elephants, but as I say, they’re just a problem species because they’re just so big. They’re so expensive. I think there should be elephants kept in captivity. But I think not every Tom Dick and Harry should have the right to… Read More
I like the Bronx, although I think it’s getting a little old. I think what the Bronx has done under Bill Conway and followed by people like Lee Ehmke and Sue Chin, the present director of VP design, is they have put in new exhibits and they really spend a… Read More
So I like Bronx, I like Zurich. I think Zurich is probably one of my favorite exhibits. Zoos, they have a lot of stuff in the old zoo, which is nice. And then they’ve got the new zoo, which really quite, quite spectacular. They’ve got a big African era. They’ve… Read More
Quite a lot of the American zoos are good. Some of the Australian zoos are good. Read More
Where are they?… Read More
Why do you admire them?… Read More
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Was there anything on the drawing board?… Read More
Not really. Not really. I think I pretty well pretty much did what I wanted to do. Actually, we’d always talked about doing an aquarium and I never did it, but it was done. It was done by my successors, freshwater aquarium called River Safari. Are there zoos in the… Read More
And it’s fine, it’s good. Read More
Are there any programs or exhibits that you would have liked to have implemented during your tenure just didn’t happen?… Read More
So when I left the zoo, so I had this agonizing six months where I was unhappy and I just couldn’t decided. I had to leave. II couldn’t stand with my being with my chairman, working with my chairman. I went through a period where I talked to people and… Read More