Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 374
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those type of concerns?… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those type of concerns?… Read More
Do you think there’s a higher attitude for amenities with visitors that they’re demanding more?… Read More
Oh, I most certainly, you know, probably Disney and other places that, that did it well for way before zoos did it will probably effect that. Yeah, I think when they come to any quote attraction, which is zoo is an attraction, they expect better things and, and now we… Read More
That’s maybe a little extra for your question, but that’s some of it. Okay. You were talking about visitors and and attitudes. Read More
But you, you have to explain, you can’t have everything. So I don’t think they have much more expectations around that. That’s the general public. There are people that are great zoo people. So when they come they wanna see specific things or they’ve heard about your zoo because you… Read More
When I got to Cleveland Metro Park Zoo, we had two carnies that ran. One ran the gifts and one ran the food. One was a, a very decent man and he, he would give, you know, inner city kids would kind of come in his shop and he’d give… Read More
They, some people don’t. A big zoo has two problems or what has a a, it’s a good thing and a bad thing. A big zoo has a lot of space for animals. But some people don’t like to walk a lot. So sometimes you have to have public transportation… Read More
And I think in, in, in, depending on how you market the zoo, if, if it’s a big zoo in it’s market, they will, they wanna see a lot of different animals. They might have their favorites, you know, where are the polar bears or whatever. So, you know, but… Read More
So where are the polar bears?… Read More
At least adults don’t expect that to see that anymore. So they, they wanna, they want, they wanna feel that the animals are well taken, taken care of. Now some people will just see, no matter how big the exhibit is or whatever, they’ll overreact. Oh, they don’t have, you… Read More
And they’re, they’re doing things. So I think they really expect the animals to be well taken care of and, and, and, and have enough space to run around. And then they’re not in cages. They, they wanna feel good about their animals. And remember most of the people they… Read More
Oh, visitor attitudes. Well, I, I, they probably expect more. I mean, again, maybe the animal welfare community has something to do with that. They don’t expect to come to a zoo to see cages. If you ever watch the, the zoo, I love Jim Hanney and his zoo program… Read More
And, and what changes have you seen during your years in the field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
So back to the original question. So whatever, when you hire a curator, no, nobody’s perfect. And so you, whatever skills they may not have, you may learn that soon or you may ask them, what do you think you need help with and make sure they get that kind… Read More
So learning to deal with passionate people is different than learning to deal with lazy people. That they’re just there. ’cause it’s a job. I, I don’t know how you feel, I don’t think many people keepers are there ’cause it’s just a job anymore. They’re there because they love… Read More
They, they feel, they lose their hands-on experience with animals. So they don’t want to. But those that want to say if they were in Cleveland, I’d say, you know, you might wanna go, I’m not gonna put down Little Rock or a smaller zoo, but you might want to… Read More
’cause you don’t necessarily learn that as a zoologist, but he also may not learn the management skills. So, you know, it’s important that those people maybe take those a ZA courses or get an MBA for god’s sakes or whatever, or at least have some training in, in some… Read More
I know a Z is actually trying to do what now?… Read More
And she went through our, our research program and through case Western University and came back as a curator. The other curator, some of assistant curators, we’ve all come from other zoos. One was a keeper, went and had a family and her husband’s actually the curator in Akron and,… Read More
A curator training program. You know, they had what I’ll call management school. They had zoo biology have a whole, I don’t even know all the schools a ZA has now re a registrar our school. But I think they’re, they’re, they’re developing a curator school. And I, back to… Read More