Is there a politician that’s gonna be brave enough to stand up and say, “Well no more, no more. We’re not cutting down any more of those forests,” I doubt it. I wish there were, but I don’t think so. There’s so much money involved, and so much money that… Read More
If there were no place in the wild, you know, their place. Where is their place? That’s their place. You worked- I’m sorry, that should be. You’ve worked with SSPs and the taxonomy advisory groups, prosimians to great apes. Read More
Are they doing a job that is helping these animals?… Read More
It necessarily is not limited to just the nature maybe within zoos, but how should they be focusing in that aspect?… Read More
Well, if you wanna save the animal, you gotta save its habitat. You can’t divorce the two of them. And the forests are being cut down at record rate, and all over the world, and primates are gonna go with the, as the forest go primates go, that’s their home. Read More
In Brazil, are they gonna stop cutting the forests?… Read More
I think it is a positive because, I think it’s a positive, I don’t know if it’s a necessary thing to do. I think it’s a positive, but you know, the whole, the major, the whole cause of conservation is more important than one, the cause of one animal. I… Read More
Since you’ve had a lot of experience with primates, and other animals, but what would you say a zoo should be doing about primate conservation specifically today?… Read More
You have to, well you have to go with the flow. You have to go, instead of fighting, necessarily fighting them, although sometimes that’s inevitable. You have to, if you need like a memorandum of understanding or a contract that you can write with them, do it. Instead of complaining… Read More
Should zoos take up the cause of a specific type of animal in the wild?… Read More
Does that, is that a positive, or does it matter?… Read More
Well, a lot of people still read newspapers, at least then they read them, now I’m not so sure, but they read newspapers. And I think that the advertisements in newspapers are very good, do a good job getting the word out. People still read newspapers, still look at them… Read More
If you had experience with the zoo unions or unions in the zoos, is there any advice you’d give on how you should be dealing with unionized keepers?… Read More
And people don’t not advertise because it brings more people in, right?… Read More
I mean, they advertise for a reason, because it works. You have to keep your name in front of the public. Read More
What did you find was the most important or the best form of advertising for the zoo when you were zoo director?… Read More
Well, it’s just like, I guess they asked Philip Wrigley, that why does he do so much advertising about his gum?… Read More
And he said, “Advertising is the engine in the locomotive. Take the engine out, and the locomotive stops.” See, that’s what advertising is really. Read More
Any areas in these, the direction of these?… Read More
Well, I think that they basically do all of the things. Some do it better than others, you know, I guess. But I think every, I think pretty much they do all that. They do all of those things. You talked about, sometimes the zoo is not necessarily in the… Read More