I, I don’t think so. I think you gotta have a nice looking thing. It it’s large enough and diverse enough for, for, for the animals. And we’ve come up with some interesting things. I know in the new bear exhibit in Cleveland, they have poles that the animals can… Read More
What, what would you say is the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collections to visitors?… Read More
I suppose so. I think it has to do with who they are. You know, I think it came from interest. I think the choice of the species, as I understand it probably came from the interest of the curators and at the, at the beginning directors, but mostly curators. Read More
Is maybe the questions we also need to be asked at the same time. Now we’re talking about different animal species. In your opinion, does the selection that the American, the association, a CA association of Zeus and Aquariums decided for their species of surviv program, those species which they… Read More
Has that met with what you envisioned in these?… Read More
So I think that’s the question, you know, science can do anything, but do we really wanna do that?… Read More
Is it, I guess my question is, is it the, the, is it reality or is it really the right thing to do?… Read More
We, I, my wife and I went to my 50th or whatever college reunion and we went to the, we had a speaker from, from from the liberal arts side and he says, you know, the scientists will say we can clone a human being, but the liberal arts people… Read More
Oh and Some of these extinct, You know, I really don’t know as much about it. The qa, they’ve talked about bringing it back and I suppose with technology it’s could happen. The gene technology. Yeah, it’s a little too out there for me. And I don’t know if it’s… Read More
So I think it’s very successful, but it’s not gonna save the a hundred thousand animals that we have. Maybe we’ll do a thousand animals at the most. Read More
On that same vein, just do you have an opinion on these new quote unquote breakthroughs of bringing back the mammoth?… Read More
Millions and millions of dollars. But there’s condors all over California. I saw the first California condor I’ve seen was just a couple years ago in Utah at, at the National Park Zion. I said I saw my first California condor, so they’re everywhere. The black-footed fart almost gone, came… Read More
And in, in New Zealand a lot of animals have been reintroduce reptiles and, and things have been re obviously they don’t have mammals but birds and have been re-introduced and reil. So I think zoos have been very successful in doing that. You know, obviously some we haven’t done. Read More
And the female was from the San Diego Wild Animal Park. And they put ’em together and, and and what, I can’t remember the whole story, but I guess they had a youngster and since the male was from Kenya and the female was from United States, they named the… Read More
I mean, so let’s say there’s a hundred thousand species, you know, so the numbers that we can work with is probably, well less than a thousand, maybe just a few hundred. Read More
But if you look at the, what we’ve done with a Arabian ORs, with hor ORs with California, California condor is this the most successful story around costs?… Read More
I mean we have a breeding program for elephants. Fortunately there’s, there’s a few zoos that are doing well, Sedwick County and those that brought in in Omaha that brought in the new ones. So there is, I’m more familiar with African elephants, but there is some of that. They,… Read More
I’m not exactly sure Mark what you mean by that?… Read More
I mean Disney had a lot of space and almost what, what would you say the last 20 years, I’m guessing the zoos that wanted to keep elephants, including Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, have all expanded their elephant facilities. So I, I think it just wasn’t needed that we thought it… Read More
Why didn’t zoos ever implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More