Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 507
Are you going to just exhibit animals?… Read More
Are you going to just exhibit animals?… Read More
And so to me, and it’s the project manager, I, what I like to do is, and there’s some great companies out there, I, I’d mentioned Pat and some, there’s some others I said, but I, what I really like to do as a part of who I bring into… Read More
Well, how are they gonna do that if you don’t incorporate them and the development department to help sell that project to raise money for?… Read More
There’s a feasibility study going on and what’s that feasibility for raising money for your exhibit?… Read More
Why does the education department and PR people need to know about it?… Read More
Well, they need to sell it. Read More
Do you have the mechanical expertise within the zoo right now to handle any new technology?… Read More
Do you have staff trained to work with that species?… Read More
Well, and, and, and I do a course for, we do a crocodile course every year. St. Augustine Alligator Farm started out a ZA support. Now we cover our, well St. Augustine Alligator Farm covers it. And I do a whole chapter on exhibit design. And the way I approach… Read More
What’s your philosophy?… Read More
You need all those people to come together to talk about how this exhibit’s gonna get built. Read More
Do I recruit? What?… Read More
Yeah, what, who do you have Oh, on your staff when you’re putting together a new exhibit?… Read More
It’s, it’s a big metal shell that has just huge beams and it’s hollow inside. A lot of horse industries use it for riding arenas and things like that. They said, let’s build that. And then inside we’ll create walkways, we’ll create exhibits and when you wanna change ’em, we… Read More
What staff did you include when you were developing a new exhibit?… Read More
You know what a butler building is?… Read More
Well, it’s not so much a master plan, because a master plan, I look at it from a, a 30,000 foot view and say the master plan says, this is Asia, this is Africa, or you know, however you lay it out. What I look at is stop designing exhibits… Read More
We, we tend to build species specific. And I think that hurts us and it makes it harder for zoos in the futures and CEOs of the futures who are trying to raise money and generate dollars to do these type of, it makes it harder on them to change… Read More
You talk about a master plan. Read More
What do you think shelf life is of a master plan?… Read More