Well, I don’t know, truthfully, I… I’m sure people have given you lots of advice. Well, I would say, not many. (laughing) I would say not many people have given me a lot of advice, as a matter of fact, Some, I guess have but. Nothing stuck with you. No,… Read More
Is there a direction that you tried to take that you feel worked, or?… Read More
Well, you could design it maybe as a, like the Earth is designed. And I’m saying you could have exhibits that are basically on, in, take an area or a country, not a country, that’s an artificial boundary. But an area of land. So you say the, not as a… Read More
That’s what they wanna see, because they wanna see a raccoon, they probably can see it running across the street at night near your home. They don’t wanna see that really. So, I don’t know. Read More
We’ve talked about research and science, should zoos play a role in research and science?… Read More
I think it’s a real big problem, but. Read More
Well given your years of experience in the field, how do you feel zoos should be designed and managed, but certainly designed?… Read More
It’s very difficult for me, honestly, to say that. I don’t know, I really don’t know. I suspect it could very well be a, making very poor decisions. They may have made, a lot of them maybe have made very poor decisions on staff, and maybe it’s that they don’t… Read More
Because there there’s a, you know we, Eddie Almandarz is the man who was the reptile curator of Lincoln park Zoo when I was there, and had been for many years, probably was about as good a practical snake man as you could ever find anywhere, but would he get… Read More
He wouldn’t, nobody would do it. And it would be losing, you know, a tremendous, not a only a tremendous person, but a tremendous source of information. I wouldn’t, there was nobody I’d want to handle any reptile, poisonous reptile around me than him. And he knew all that stuff. Read More
I think it can be done, I really do. Some you can’t, some you’re never gonna be able to, I mean, I know that. But I think there’s a lot of them that you could. Read More
What’s the largest professional problem you think is facing US zoos today, and what can be done to correct the problem?… Read More
Well, it’s hard for me to say no on medical research. I have benefited a great deal from research that was done, you know, that’s been done as years gone by. I think it needs to really be a valuable piece of research because now they’ve got so many computer… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these groups, or how best you dealt with them?… Read More
Well I tried to, the best way to do it is to try to co-opt them. You know become, not become necessarily a part of them, but to try to get to where there are some things that you can agree with them on, and I think you can. I’m… Read More
Are there certain type of primates that small or medium-type zoos should be concentrating on rather than the big gorillas or orangutans?… Read More
Well, I suspect they wouldn’t, a small zoo, today especially, wouldn’t have a gorilla or orangutan because of price, cost difference, the cost problem. I wouldn’t imagine that, I don’t know. But you know, there are a lot of things they could do. They could pick a, maybe a gibbon… Read More
With primates, how do you feel about the continuing research on primates from behavioral to invasive?… Read More
I don’t think that, being a small local zoo, I think that people really, no matter what kind of a zoo you are, people want to see a variety of animals, period. They really do. And you know, all you need to do is you should be doing something with… Read More
If you wanna do it with a large animal, so what?… Read More