Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 241
Other people would be in the same position, and why reinvent the wheel, if it’s here in this paper or here in this journal?… Read More
Other people would be in the same position, and why reinvent the wheel, if it’s here in this paper or here in this journal?… Read More
Yes I think, yeah I think I did. You indicated when you were at Lincoln Park that you would go around and see what was going on. Read More
Well, it was that work on the, the work on the bush dogs was with an animal that was unknown, I mean really, an animal that was unknown. I mean, if you ask today people in zoos, what is a South American bush dog, I’ll bet you most of them… Read More
And that’s the reason that it was done, that I did it because just added a little bit of knowledge to the pool of animal animal knowledge, because nothing else, very little really, had been written about bush dogs, and I think very little is known, still known today about… Read More
Did you feel a responsibility in any way, maybe a bad word, to publish things that you saw based on your original things of working with the great apes?… Read More
Were you involved in developing stud books for any various animals or not? Or did you work with them?… Read More
Well, I worked with stud books but I was not, no, I was not in it, in working with stud books, no. You wrote about the bush dog at Lincoln Park. Read More
Could you give us some background about the study, and how significant was that kind of work?… Read More
Well, I guess it could have educational value I suppose, but you know, when you’re doing it during the summertime as part of a summer camp, or summer exercise outside of school, it doesn’t lend itself to that. That’s what I think. And so when you do it, like we… Read More
And all of these kids had just been running around like, you know, crazy for hours, and then all of a sudden here comes an educational experience?… Read More
No, I don’t think so, it wasn’t. And it just wasn’t, but I think if it was in an academic setting, I think that it could be, yeah, I think it could be. Read More
I personally felt that it was, what they were doing was a worthless, totally worthless, you know, activity, as far as education is concerned. But at any rate it was part of the park district thing, and that’s what you did and fine, so we did it. And I can’t… Read More
(laughing) But, so I give kudos to him. Read More
We were talking about, does a traveling zoo have educational value and could it?… Read More
(Saul laughing) And, but how effective, you don’t have to tell any of these stories, but how effective would you say that type of program was?… Read More
I mean, you were thrown into it, and is the kind of thing- Yeah the first day I, the first day I came there, it was George Irving, who, you know, was doing the scheduling, said, “How would you like to go in the, you gotta take, take the children’s… Read More
Lincoln Park was really the first zoo that ever had reptiles. And I never was a, I never handled reptiles. And going out with me on this traveling zoo there was a caiman, which was, and the people, you know, caiman is a crocodilian, smaller than an alligator, not an… Read More
And most of the time I could say yes, with qualified yes. When you see, when I saw animals like Sinbad, the lone male gorilla in Lincoln Park, alone and living alone for his entire life, you sorta of saw it feel, you’ve failed in that regard. But it wasn’t,… Read More
When you first came to Lincoln Park Zoo, I know that you were involved in the, a lot of things were thrown at you, the Children’s Traveling Zoo. Read More
Am I doing that, how are we doing that?… Read More