So it’s a, and and this is a three year program that, that they do in, that they do at the three facilities, university of Illinois, Brookfield and shed Aquarium, Just to be clear. So at the end of that three years, they’re not a full-time veterinarian at the zoo. Read More
And so I think that combination was very helpful for me. A number of our veterinarians have similar experiences with, they have an internship in a, a different aspect of veterinary medicine and then a zoo residency. And we have, we have residents, we have a resident, we’re part of… Read More
Well, I I think the, the kind of the, the pinnacle of zoo based training is really the residency internships are typically for veterinarians that are right outta school. They tend to be a year long. And, and those are important to any postgraduate education programs focused in a zoo… Read More
I, I think it’s in terms of, in terms of the veterinarian needing to go around and see all the animals in order to, in order to have an idea of what’s going on or in order to spot sick animals, that’s, that’s probably less important. And I think that’s… Read More
And, and speaking of residencies or internships, how important is it to be zoo intern?… Read More
What is it accomplishing?… Read More
Has this zoo has a, a veterinarian as its director?… Read More
How important do you think it is for zoo veterinarians to make rounds?… Read More
No, I think the key differences were, were not so much fundamental in terms of the practice of veterinary medicine. It was, you know, there were, for me the reason for the change was other outside issues, being able to live outside the city and, and the challenge of working… Read More
Do you feel that’s beneficial?… Read More
Now you’ve worn two hats as a veterinarian in both Chicago zoos. What would you say were some of the differences in their approach to veterinary medicine, if any, when you moved from one zoo to the other zoo, one zoo having a veterinarian as its director, another not, And,… Read More
I, I am not aware of any current sister zoo relationships. I think, I think as a means of connecting, connecting different cultures. I think that’s largely been supplanted by social media. I mean, there aren’t the barriers to, you know, we connect with zoos over baby hippos on TikTok. Read More
Does Brookfield Zoo have Sister zoo relationships?… Read More
And, and what if you, what if you brought in a disease like Newcastle’s disease into the United States?… Read More
And so actually the strictest international quarantine that I’ve ever been involved in was with those birds because they had to be in quarantine for 60 days after the last egg hatched. And so, and everybody coming in and out of that exhibit had to strip down and shower in… Read More
And they were from countries that had bird diseases, poultry diseases that don’t exist in the United States. And so there, instead of human health concern, it’s a concern about the millions and millions of poultry in the United States. Read More
So have you been involved in your career at Brookfield Zoo in international shipments?… Read More
Yes, yes. Mostly zoo to zoo shipments And, and there were medical considerations as Yes, and, and some of the, some of the more challenging ones were based on, they were based on things completely outside that species and outside of the zoo field. And I’ll, I’ll give you two… Read More
I would say there are probably less than there have, there, there are many of them that happen on the, the national level, you know, those species survival programs or SSPs frequently make breeding recommendations that that call for moving animals from one population to another, one institution to another. Read More
Well, it, so this, this was over 30 years ago, so you know, there were a number of, there were a number of tests that that really aren’t available to us. There are diseases that have emerged in the meantime that, that were to consideration. But what we did was… Read More