Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 668
What do you think is the role of conservation breeding in zoo relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
What do you think is the role of conservation breeding in zoo relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
That I just said. Detroit. We talked about conservation breeding. Read More
You know, if you are gonna say that we’re our standards, optimal standards of animal wellbeing, and we care about every animal at the zoo, and you turn around and shoot it in the head when it’s two years old, that’s a double standard that I don’t, I don’t think… Read More
It was a mistake, but it was a mistake. I’m glad that Denmark made it there. There was a zoo years ago in the United States, remember the director shot the CTO Honda ORs. Do you you remember that one? I think it was Detroit. And he got in a… Read More
Turns out there was, or there was one female in the group. You heard this story?… Read More
No. So they call Ray, you know, I was, I was at that point, I was, I wasn’t involved in the decision too much. I I didn’t have the decision, or it might’ve been different. And Ray said, just flush it down the toilet. It’s a hissing cockroach. We can’t… Read More
Re a perfectly healthy animal. I remember at Disney we had a, a, we, we, we would not at that point in it euthanize an any animal. If it was, it was just for convenience. So Ray Mendez sends us these hissing cockroaches. He sends us all males. Read More
Does everybody draw the line on when you can euthanize an animal just for management?… Read More
So again, you know, at what level do you draw?… Read More
There’s plenty of places they could have sent that giraffe and they could have, but they wanted to make a point. But I know, I think that point backfired on them. Read More
You bet your ass. It does, but it depends on the, it, you know, we all have a different level of tolerance. Some it’s okay to euthanize fish and insects. Okay, others, you know, you go a little higher. But when you get to a giraffe or an elephant or… Read More
You know, how could they, how, how could they do it?… Read More
That’s just not right. You, you have to, but you have to build that into your budget to begin with. Because when it comes to that point, you didn’t budget for it. You said, well, I, well, yeah, that’s your own damn fault because you, you knew this was gonna… Read More
Does euthanizing of endangered species still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
Because as soon as it’s built, it’s overcrowded and you can’t build, you can’t. If you’re gonna do it, build build into it. I have a draft barn that can hold 12 giraffes. I got five. Now when I get to 12, then I’ll have that problem of, of, of,… Read More
Well, I wouldn’t call ’em surplus, first of all. You know, they’re animals that, that, that they don’t have space for. So, you know, they’re, they’re gonna have to go someplace else. It’s, I mean, that’s just a terminology thing. But I don’t like the way they, if, if they’re,… Read More
How do you think zoos should be dealing with surplus animals?… Read More
But you know, that, that, that entitlement thing that we have nowadays is, is also more of a, you know, a challenge than it is a problem. More than it is a benefit. Everybody thinks they can run everything now. They can. They know everything. And I, I’ve had keepers… Read More
You could still run my business. But you know, you, you have to, you have to stay the course. And, and that commitment, it’s so much more difficult now to stay, to do one thing when there’s so many other temptations out there. And you wanna be promoted now right… Read More
First of all, I paid for most of it. He said, we paid for all this education, and you’re still shoveling shit into a dump truck. Read More