So they, from the moment they come in the zoo, they understand what the zoo is doing for field conservation. Remember I talked about field conservation versus other forms of conservation. So I think that’s very important that people understand what, what the zoo is about and if they, and… Read More
So, so people, most people look at what’s this?… Read More
What do you think is the most, one of the most difficult concepts for zoos to understand and implement regarding their relationship to conservation?… Read More
You talked about conservation before. Read More
And so they’re still part of that whole thing. And then when Steve Burns was in Idaho at Zoo Boise, he worked with the park. He had a, oh, I can’t remember the guy’s name, but he’s a wealthy person, actually lives in Sun Valley. But he got them really… Read More
I suppose it’s viable. I think more likely it’s to work with a national park. Akron is very close to Cuyahoga National Park, so they’ve done some coyote studies together and some other kinds of studies together. Or if you’re close to a national park like Yellowstone, like the Wolf… Read More
Why do you feel Zeus have not picked up on the challenge in more numbers and and is this adopt a national park still viable?… Read More
’cause we just don’t have the capacity. So it’s a good thing in one way because it, it extends our ability to keep capacity, to keep the things we need to have a self-sustaining captive population, whether it’s rhinos or giraffes or there’s not many gorillas or clip springer or… Read More
And, and that really helped change the laws as did Jack Hannah because he was good friends with the governor and they created this exotic animal ordinance. So that’s, that’s a good thing, not just every Joe public can have a lion or a tiger. There was a program adopt… Read More
Can you sustain yourself for a while?… Read More
So all accredited zoos have an ability to sustain their collections and in emergencies where some private people, if the owner dies, might not. So that’s another concern. Read More
So there are a lot of concerns dealing with private people, but I think zoos regularly work with ’em particularly, I think, wouldn’t you say with reptiles and, and birds?… Read More
I mean, one of the questions you have in accreditation is, you know, what happens if there’s a COVID break outbreak and you don’t have any visitors?… Read More
And they’re even are, they’re even some big private companies that are a ZA accredited, I can’t remember the one in California that’s good. But there’s a couple that are accredited and work with our, our ethics dealing with private people. You know, we have a form and they have… Read More
I, it just wouldn’t be be right. Read More
And so that becomes a little, I think you can still give animals to the big ranches in Texas, but they can’t be, those particular animals can’t be hunted. I don’t know, particularly in a can we’ll call a canned hunt, which is, you know, you’ll come into a small… Read More
But does that mean we can’t give it to one of the ranches that do a good job?… Read More
There are different things in partners. Certainly we use a lot of private breeders with reptiles and birds. I don’t say a lot, but I think we do that more with, more with that than with mammals. But there’s certainly private breeders of mammals I think we work with. It’s… Read More
Well there’s a what what do you mean by the partners?… Read More
What do you think about the, the role private breeders can be as partners with ze?… Read More