Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 319
Is there words of wisdom you might give to me about developing exhibits?… Read More
Is there words of wisdom you might give to me about developing exhibits?… Read More
I- Well, let’s call it in situ concept. They maybe have a new term for it today. I don’t think it fits every zoological park’s agenda. It’s expensive. Now, you can cooperatively get a program going between two or three institutions. And that’s good. You’re at least putting a little… Read More
I think it’s okay to be part of but I don’t think it’s you have to or you can’t. It’s not a good fit for everybody. We were talking about exhibits also. I’m a new director. I call you up. Read More
What is their responsibility for conservation in the wild?… Read More
So, but I definitely support conservation programs. Don’t get me wrong and I’m not anti-conservation programs. But I think what’s happened with the selection of some of these programs has been to the expense of what the SSP was originally intended to do. That’s an old timer speaking because I… Read More
What is the responsibility, just to follow through, what is the responsibility of zoos to protect or work with the species in the wild today?… Read More
What’s a zoo without a tiger, if you don’t have tigers?… Read More
And the diversity, I think the diversity in zoos in terms of collections has greatly changed. And it could get to the point that you won’t see the same kinds of things that you used to see. And I think that’s sad ’cause I don’t think that really tells the… Read More
I think in the long run, what’s a zoo without a lion, if you don’t have lions?… Read More
This was happening. They were doing a lot of research in labs with white rats and white mice. But nevertheless, the message was the same. You’re going to have some genetic anomalies if we aren’t careful. A lot of that spilled over into zoos. And so, this idea of that… Read More
That was what this was all started out to be. Somehow it got changed. And there are a lot of reasons how it got changed. I really think that there should have been a system for monitoring the direction it was going. It was identified as this is what we… Read More
What had promulgated a lot of this was new information about inbreeding depressions and what was going to happen if the genetics of these populations didn’t change and they weren’t managed?… Read More
And when we got in this business in 1967, if you said you were going to build an insectarium, somebody would’ve thought you were crazy. And yet, that’s a very popular exhibit. And today I think you’ve got to have a collection that’s got an insectarium because it’s part of… Read More
And then it was changed to Species Survival Plan. At that time, Denny Merrit was chairman of the Wildlife Management Committee and I was vice chairman. And the charge was given to the committee to start looking at species that we’d like to have in a sustainable plan. Read More
What kind of exhibits do we want to build that are gonna be popular with the public?… Read More
And that synced with what kind of exhibits do we want to have?… Read More
We had a fiduciary responsibility. We all had a fiduciary responsibility to make sure that we operated it so that we could do the things that we wanted to do. And that meant being very cost conscious and thinking about ways in which we can gather more money. So, when… Read More
And I think that was something that we really had to think about in terms of what we wanted the collection to be. Read More
And the second part of that is the science slash research, how important was that?… Read More
I think that when we started looking at those four purposes of a zoo, we obviously in 1985, we needed to find every way we could to try to generate funding against an economy which wasn’t going to support it very well. I know as I went through the profession,… Read More