Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 306
Did you have a full-time vet or part-time vet?… Read More
Did you have a full-time vet or part-time vet?… Read More
Was it challenging in this open air setting of handling the animals, that is the medical treatment or transferring them from one place to another?… Read More
We hired a bunch of young men that were musicians and they would create music around in the round oval, things like that. Read More
They would get concerned about temperatures getting low, and we’d have to convince them that we needed a little more protection for heat, and I had to walk him around with things like that. But he wasn’t an animal man, he was a money man, which is fine, we can’t… Read More
Or did they talk to you all the time about what was going on?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
Did they leave things in your hands?… Read More
No, my boss boss basically was Harry Schuster, the president, the owner of the park. Read More
Who were your bosses, this Mr. York?… Read More
So who did you answer to?… Read More
I tried to move Bubbles and I had a four wheel drive Jeep and I had a rope on her and I was trying to pull her out. Guess what, I was sitting in water up to my nose. She pulled a whole damn Jeep and me inside in the… Read More
Yeah, I had capybaras get out at Lion Country in California. And people were saying, “Oh my God, what a rat.” And they were breeding, these capybaras. And Toticos were breeding there and marabous were breeding there. And you got cheetahs to breed there. I got got the second litter… Read More
Remember when the capybaras got out?… Read More
Schroeder, yeah. You remember when the- Charlie Schroeder. Read More
Dr. Schroeder?… Read More
Huh?… Read More
Schroeder?… Read More
It was… Well, that guy with the beard, he was a good. He was there for years, I can’t think of his name. Read More
Who was the director of the San Diego zoo that you worked with?… Read More
Oh yeah. And we were always moving things around, we were always bringing new things in. We brought in Hylobares lar, which is the dwarf gibbons from a special island in Asia. They came in with a shipment of Gibbons, but he was a siamang, but a dwarf siamang and… Read More