And those eggs, both there and with us had not hatched adequately or none had hatched successfully. So my old friend, Chuck Shaw from early days at San Diego, and I compared notes over and over. And we came to the conclusion as they were having trouble mating, that his… Read More
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We realized right away that in terms of Galapagos tortoises, no zoo would ever raise them. And at San Diego Zoo, they had over 30 for many years, and at Honolulu Zoo, they had a dozen. And part of our group and part of the San Diego Zoo’s group were… Read More
Can you tell us about the details of their development and breeding?… Read More
Did you implement a plan for them in breeding?… Read More
George Gilbert, actually was Georges Gilbert, was a Hawaiian, part-Hawaiian guy that was, worked for the territorial division of fish and game, ran their research vessel, whose name was Imua, which in Hawaiian means forward, move forward, go forward. Georges was employed as a poppies and whale catcher by sea… Read More
Did that have anything to do with sea life park?… Read More
How did the discovery, if at all, helped the zoo, and what role did George Gilbert play?… Read More
The oceanarium site was so steep for the school, but perfect for the oceanarium because they overlooked beautiful point of land. So in 1964, the oceanarium finally was open, and my daughter, Marley, worked there from the second year, right up for more than 30 years. And the oceanarium has… Read More
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And, well, turned out the father’s PanAm connection was beneficial in terms of having friends that, one of Tap’s sisters was married to Lil Thomas Jr., and there were a number of tie-ins with, again, the people that could help finance the oceanarium. So that hurdle was not as difficult… Read More
And do you have location? What do you want to do?… Read More
So I’d read those, and I knew about him and I said, “Wow, that’s great.” And then I said, “Well, what do you guys have in mind?” And she said, “Well, Chuck Bogart said that you could help us.” And I said, “Well, okay, what do you wanna do?” And… Read More
And so I said, well, sure, I’ll help any way I can. I said to her the same thing Mrs. Benchley said to me. Let’s get together, let’s talk about it. Read More
What was your involvement in developing Sea Life Park?… Read More
With Sea Life, that was a fascinating thing. One afternoon in the ’50s, a young couple with two little boys, toe-headed kids came in. The couple were in their early 20s or mid 20s, and they’d called and made an appointment. And so we met out on the lawn. And… Read More
Students have gotten, used that site to study for their degrees. And so this, our bird keeper from the Honolulu Zoo joined this group that was led by the curator, Allen Allison at the bishop museum. And Allen helped establish at the, this Wau biological station collecting area with the… Read More
And this is the important conservation measure. It’s not just to have a lot of birds of paradise. She has negotiated with, I believe, almost a dozen, eight different other zoos, particularly San Diego Wild Animal Park has been her closest cooperator, and New York to exchange birds-of-paradise that she’s… Read More
The only difficulty by then, her male, her mate had died. And it was a time that we only had that one pair of blues. And by the time we got any more blue birds-of-paradise from Sir Edward, that bird had quit laying. So the eggs of course were sterile,… Read More