Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 649
What, what are you doing here, kid?… Read More
What, what are you doing here, kid?… Read More
I, I, I can tell if I’m giving a talk, if I’m gonna, when I’m gonna shut it down, or I’m going, or I’m gonna pivot and do something else, you just look at how they’re reading their cell phones, you know, something like that. There, there’s so ma there’s… Read More
They’re doing so much more. And I think it’s a really good avenue for people to get to. But they have to realize that the first few years this is gonna be shoveling shit. Okay. They’re you. Yeah. I, I had a master’s degree and I’m still throwing elephant shit… Read More
I question myself all the time. Read More
How I can be better and say, should I bring that up?… Read More
You know, you would’ve brought that, you know, and listen, Rick, don’t jump into that conversation. Let the guy finish first. You know, make sure you’re be a much better listener. Because, you know, I can be a, it’s funny, I can be a talker, but I’m an only child… Read More
I didn’t, I didn’t have one, one piece of advice. I think, you know, my, my, my people like Bill Barnett or Conway that were mentors didn’t give me advice. They, they, they, it was by example. You just watch what they did. And, and you can’t be somebody else. Read More
What was the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
But I, I think the elephants in good facilities in this country, especially the bigger ones that, you know, that Omaha and Cedgwick County, and d and Dallas brought some elephants in that was very controversial. But all those elephants are thriving in captive situations, in big exhibits. San Diego… Read More
Well then that, that, that, that’s like trying to mind read for, it’d be a fortune tell for elephants. I I think that having elephants in the history is abominable what happens in, in this country, the way elephants were treated. And it’s just, you know, in the last 20… Read More
But again, in a perfect world, elephants are difficult, just like killer whales. You know, we should, we shouldn’t have ’em in captivity, but we have to have ’em in order to draw our attention to, to, so, so if we have ’em do it right. I think you may… Read More
Well, you know, we talked about animals earning their keep. Ideally, elephants don’t belong in zoos, but if we didn’t have ’em in zoos, I don’t think people would have the same compassion for saving them in the wild. So there are good exhibits much. And that, that’s where space… Read More
You know, I think you would, they would they rather be in the wild?… Read More
In your opinion, your professional opinion, what’s your view regarding zoos, maintaining elephants, and how should it be done correctly?… Read More
I don’t know what the number is now with a ZA, but it’s, it’s, you know, hundreds of million dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars a year now to conservation just from the 240 zoos and aquariums. And the aquariums is, you got shed and you got the Georgia Aquarium… Read More
And then there’s, you know, there, there’s some small, a lot of good small zoos too. But again, the mentality is you should always be, you know, you’re, you’re, you’re never the number one, you always want to be better. You know, like that rental car thing, you always, that… Read More
It’s a Belgian zoo. And, and it’s a, it’s a private owner and he just put all his money into it. It’s, it’s, it’s a enormous put, we stayed in a room that the window was looking into the bear exhibit, and the bears was sleeping right outside our, our… Read More
The Minnesota Zoo is really a good zoo. Chicago has two good zoos. And, and there are different structures. Totally. Which is, which is interesting. I don’t have to lecture you about the zoos in Chicago, but I think the Brookfield Zoo now, now they, they got a good director… Read More
They’re dynamic. They’re, they’re innovative. They, they’re always pushing the envelope. And then in South America, they’re, they’re not, they’re not a Singapore, but the Ali Zoo that we were at, there’s a zoo outside of Bo, not the Buenos Air Zoo, but outside of Buenos Air Time Aiken, these… Read More
When I analyze a zoo, I analyze leadership, the quality of the keeper staff and the behind the scenes. I don’t analyze it by attendance and budget and, and, and marketing campaigns, you know, totally different. And when I do it that way, it changes because the zoos change. But… Read More