Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 339
What did, purpose did it fulfill?… Read More
What did, purpose did it fulfill?… Read More
Basically, yes. Basically. It was an educational thing, but obviously that didn’t preclude it being enjoyable. And they did a lot, they did breeding there too, believe it or not. You know, they had a pair of swans that for years and years, they had a pair of mute swans… Read More
And they hired, they had zoo people running it, you know?… Read More
Well, I had control over it, yes. Final control was mine, yeah. Read More
How successful was this Children’s Zoo?… Read More
Was it an educational purpose?… Read More
They built it apparently. I mean, they did, they built the zoo and they staffed it. They hired the personnel. Read More
You didn’t have control over it as director?… Read More
How has zoos changed?… Read More
And specifically San Francisco, and how do you think that change that you were trying to initiate affected the animals, good, bad indifferent?… Read More
Well, I think that the animals were affected in I think a positive, quite a positive way. I think a positive way, yeah. And of course the story that you told to the public and the people loved to, you know, people liked the zoo and they came out to… Read More
Well, you were breeding of course, trying to breed. Breed them, I mean breed animals. And I think that the, one of things that I was big about was causing, or looking at the population of an animal in all the zoos, like in the United States. You know, it’s,… Read More
What’d you mean, and do think people understood or accepted that statement?… Read More
I don’t know, but I think that, I think that Lincoln Park was a great example. I used to use this, that yeah, there were bars at Lincoln Park. There were gorillas in bars. Well, look at what they were doing. Look how many gorillas they were producing, and the… Read More
And well, they sort of agreed to that, I guess. You know, which they didn’t have to have course anyway, but I didn’t want to make enemies right away. So, but that was okay. But that was just one instance of the thing. Read More
In response to an article in the “Rotarian” magazine, you wrote that, “Zoos may not save all the animals, but they’re going to, but they are going to be able to save a lot of them.” what was your zoo and others doing in this regard?… Read More
He’s taking these animals, these are our favorites.” (laughing) So that was one of the first eye-openers sort of, it shouldn’t have been, I guess, but it was to me. But I persevered, I didn’t back down. Read More
I said, “Well,” I told them the reason why, you know?… Read More
Oh, you know, they have common antlers, you know what they are, we had them- Fallow?… Read More
We had fallow deer in a nice exhibit. I mean, it was a good exhibit, but, You know, I don’t think they needed the help. So I just, I said, “You know, we could do a lot better, and it would be better for the public too, I think. But… Read More