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Yeah, that was- Is this is widely known in the zoological fields among your colleagues?… Read More

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No, not at all. Now it is. (laughter) You mentioned wildlife management. You had been thinking about that. Read More

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(laughter) Our extensive research. Yeah, extensive research. (laughter) Pretty funny. Read More

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(laughs) Every brother’s got a name and some of ’em had to do with your appearance and I guess I have a pear-head. Read More

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So, that’s how I got my name Pear-head and how did you find that out?… Read More

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What’s with the name Pear-head?… Read More

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Theta Chi Gama?… Read More

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Theta Chi. The Gama chapter is the a chapter name but the national fraternity is Theta Chi. Read More

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Now, when you talked about college, what kind of schooling did you have?… Read More

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My formal education is Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska. I’m a Cornhusker having to live out my life in Oklahoma, which is tough. And it was a liberal arts school and I got sort of a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from there. Then I did two years of graduate… Read More

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And I thought, you know what, I guess I really haven’t. And then I applied for a job at the Kansas City Zoo in 1967 and the rest is history. Read More

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I think I was interested in working with animals as I grew older. After I got outta high school and went to college, being a Zoology major and wanting to work with animals, you realized that if you were going to do it, there were probably two ways to do… Read More

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So, then actually somebody suggested, well, have you thought about zoos?… Read More

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I visited the local zoos, obviously the Kansas City Zoo. I went to high school in Omaha. My father was transferred into Omaha. And so, we went to the Omaha Zoo that time, which was a Park and Rec Zoo which was pretty bad at that time. If we went… Read More

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So, what got your interest in wanting to work with animals then?… Read More

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Now, when you’re growing up, did you have the opportunity then to see or visit zoos?… Read More

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Well, my family is very small. Basically, our Thanksgiving dinners, you could put around one table and that’s the entire family. So, it was a small family and it was at a time right after the War. My father was employed but things were tough and so our form of… Read More

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But I had an appreciation of nature and I’m sure the fact that we did that as a family instilled an interest in me in the natural world and it just went on from there. Read More

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What kind of outside activities did you do?… Read More

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Steve Wiley. Actually, it’s Stephen R Wiley, that’s the professional name. Born on November 15th, 1943, Kansas City, Missouri. And tell us a little something about your childhood. Read More