Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 552
Were you trying to go to people to give you additional money?… Read More
Were you trying to go to people to give you additional money?… Read More
Was it just through the gate?… Read More
How did you find the funding for the zoo?… Read More
Tell me a little thing about fundraising. You had this initial investment, but now you had to get funds because you were talking about the difficulty. Read More
So at that time. So people came to the zoo in the community, they paid their money, was a positive year?… Read More
Big draw. Biggest draw in the history of the zoo at that time. Read More
Huh?… Read More
But today, we have a baby gorilla from that pair and potential for more. So anyway, Pensacola has a pair of gorillas and a youngster that was born there. Now, when Colossus was at the zoo, as you indicated, he was a big draw. Read More
Ellie, our elephant and Colossus, they were big- Big issues. Big draw. So anyway. Important to the community. Edmond Russ threatened me with a gorilla SSP and all that stuff. I said, “I’ll tell you what you do, you make sure I want a pair of gorillas down there and… Read More
No. Knocked the hell out of him. Big dummy. So we got this female gorilla in and she went by Colossus and just knocked the snot out of him. They lived together, but they never bred. But when Edmond Russ at Cincinnati zoo, he’s a collector, he really is a… Read More
She never liked Colossus, did she?… Read More
Huh?… Read More
Yeah. She never liked Colossus. Read More
Not sure where, was it Cincinnati?… Read More
Might have been Cincinnati. Yeah, Cincinnati. Read More
Cincinnati?… Read More
I don’t know. Read More
Where did she come from?… Read More
I caught him and immobilized him twice because we electroejaculated him to check his sperms and things like that, he was very weak, his sperm count. Because gorillas are the biggest of all the primates, but their penises are about that long (laughs). So anyway, we tried to inseminate a… Read More
So the day that he was coming out, the press was there, everybody was there, TV, everybody. Colossus comes out, and he’s been living in this glass cage on concrete for all of his life. He comes out, the door opens, he walks out, pulling his towel, had his blanket… Read More