Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 443
Were you trying to, not to put a dollar amount on the animals?… Read More
Were you trying to, not to put a dollar amount on the animals?… Read More
It was nothing. And even they were, they even, was it the “Today” show, or it was one of those morning shows. Read More
The man who was the director of the Philadelphia Zoo, what was his name?… Read More
No, that’s a different, that was a different thing. Sorry, that was a different thing. (laughing) But at any rate, there was no, there wasn’t really any, you know, a lot, most people didn’t believe what this bunch was talking about. No, there was never a big thing about that. Read More
Did you have a philosophy for handling the type of press that you were getting with these people?… Read More
Well, we weren’t getting bad press from that. We never, we never really did. Read More
I mean, they wanted to, but what could they find out was bad?… Read More
And so it was, and we did, we sent them to China. Read More
What was your philosophy though in handling the demands of these type of donors with the best interest of the animals?… Read More
Well the donors always wanted the best interests of animals, that was never a problem. I never had, none of these people were donors anyway, who were complainers, they weren’t donors of anything. They never gave anything to the zoo. So there’s no problem. Read More
So they really, you know, and this is a whole bunch of other people, because they were saying, “We can’t send our San Francisco orangutan to China.” And you know, that’s all I need to hear, I can’t do it. Read More
They’re gonna go, you know?… Read More
But it was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do. I mean, it was a typical zoo move. And we did. Read More
Oh, the ASPCA got involved in it, to make sure they were treated humanely, as if they would know how to treat them humanely actually, as a matter of fact, but they, (laughing) they were, and the guy says, the truck driver who, the guy driving the Humane Society truck… Read More
Well yeah, I would say yes, I would say yes. But you know, we had been improving a lot anyway, and we were getting some, we got some very, very good press. As I told you about the gorilla exhibit, we got very good press on all the new things… Read More
And when you talked about good press coming because of the gorillas and the exhibit and the positiveness of the pandas, in 1988, the orangutan Josephine did cause a little bit of a stir. Tell us what happened with- That was, yeah, that was a deal with the, our sister… Read More
She can’t be, you know, moved away, and just all kinds of stuff. And these are typical, this is a typical San Francisco thing, that there are people that get up in arms about certain things and they can’t, you know, they have no expertise whatsoever at all. But the… Read More
Did the pandas help the funding for the zoo overall?… Read More
Were people more willing to give funding?… Read More
Well no, not really. But I did take some people in, and in fact, this is a real funny, I think it’s an amusing story. There was a store here in Sonoma, a big supermarket, who I used to go to this supermarket and they knew who I was. And,… Read More