Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 592
And if you have, how did you handle it?… Read More
And if you have, how did you handle it?… Read More
What experience have you had with your zoo with animal rights people?… Read More
I think that part of their goal now, whether it’s, I don’t know about the city zoos I don’t know how they do that. But the private sector, I think should make a commitment to some organization that is important for conservation of animals. It could be The Nature Conservancy,… Read More
What can a small zoo or maybe even a medium size zoo do today to be more involved in conservation, either nationally or international, what can they do?… Read More
Well, selfishly, I was doing what my heart told me to do and what I had struggled to do all my life. So I was happy that I had chosen that career and I regretted not having more education. But I didn’t have the time to do that, I was… Read More
To begin with, what do you think made you a good zoo director, you personally?… Read More
Well, you include my experience with wild animals at home and in the wild, it’s a long time. But I was in AZA in the ’60s. In the ’60s. Yeah, you joined in the ’60s. About ’65. I went to the first conference in Busch Gardens, that’s where my first… Read More
How long have you been in the zoo community?… Read More
I think they have different motives somewhat. I think most of the AZA zoos now, and I don’t know many of them that are privately owned, I don’t know. But I know that there has been a trend, and you don’t have to be a big city board to have… Read More
Do you think the two organizations are covering different things?… Read More
Door. Read More
Because you did work for accreditation. Pat felt it was very important. You want your facility to meet the high standards. Even if you’re a little park, even if you’re privately owned, you want your facility to be a first class facility, you want to meet the standards, you want… Read More
Why was it important though to be AZA accredited?… Read More
Or Wide Oak. Or Wide Oak, yeah. Or probably Fossil Rim. Fossil Rim. Read More
Huh?… Read More
And it won’t work with people like Mickey Olson or Alex Salisbury, we wanna- Or Wide Oak. Read More
Well, the people that were private and the people that were little guys or privately owned facilities or people that just had small collections, some not open to the public, some open to the public, they needed a voice, they needed to be able to communicate together and share information. Read More
Yeah, it started in your office, just you decided or you had a group of people. Yeah, I decided. Well, you were the zoo culturalist and somebody in another group. And you had a meeting at our… In our office at the zoo. And we developed an organization called ZAA… Read More
How did it start?… Read More
How did it start?… Read More