There’s, there’s knowing everything about an animal’s natural history in the wild and knowing what habitat they live in, but that can be different than the adaptations that you need to make to, to have animals in human care and substituting our environment for the national environment. And that’s where,… Read More
I think making those, you know, the, you know, like I I talked about Brookfield Zoo, Chicago mantra of connect care and concern or, or excuse me, connect care and conserve. And, and I think it, it’s really developing those connections and developing education programs that are collaborative so that,… Read More
What qualities should a good curator have?… Read More
Discussions falling back on your degrees as you know, my idea trumps your idea, you know, is never gonna work for very long. So your approach to the Keepers was, My approach to the Keepers was they were partners in the care for those animals. I looked at, again, my… Read More
Again, curators are leaders of a group of animal care staff. They need to have those keeper skills to have the understanding of the animal skills to, to understand the, the, the animals in their care and have a level of knowledge about not just the scientific aspects, but you… Read More
And, and the idea that, you know, if you’re having one of those, should we go this way?… Read More
And so the, the cardinal sin that a zoo veterinarian can have is to think, because I’ve got all this training, I’ve got all this education, I got all these years of college and initials behind my name that makes me smarter than you or better than you. That that… Read More
Should we go that way?… Read More
I, I think the, I think the big thing, and it’s a, it’s a little bit different now than it was certainly when I, you know, when I started, when I did my residency, we had keepers that had been at the St. Louis Zoo for many, many years that… Read More
And what do you believe were your key approaches to dealing with the animal keepers?… Read More
And you mentioned relationships, so this is kind of a two part, any advice for the Neophyte Zoo veterinarian about the importance of developing relationships with the keeper staff?… Read More
I, I think there are a lot of, there are a lot of skills that a veterinarian has to have that are useful for somebody in a, a zoo management position. It’s a, it’s an academically rigorous thing to get into and through veterinary schools. So, so there’s, you know,… Read More
So they’re animal people with a good bit of zoo experience, significant people skills. And all of the ones that I know of were interested in this career track so that they made decisions to prepare them for the management side. So they weren’t, they weren’t people that were prepared… Read More
Come a zoo director?… Read More
Does being a zoo veterinarian give one the skills?… Read More
She just won a very prestigious award at the most regent recent zoo vet meeting and has been really the mover and shaker behind our residency program. So she’s really the academic heart and soul of our training program. And so, you know, I, the thing that I’m proud of… Read More
There were, there were things, they’re, they’re mostly related to people because it’s a, it’s a people business and, you know, it’s not this indivi individual animal surgery or that individual animal surgery. But I think the, the effort that it took and the impact that the Zoo Pathology program… Read More
I, I think I, I I, there are a couple and, and can you Gimme a couple?… Read More
And so she got to the end of the program and said, I’ve got a really good job offer and I need to let them know within a week can we do something to keep me here. Luckily I was getting ready to go on vacation by myself down to… Read More
And then Brookfield Zoo is, you know, a few steps down on that list. And, and I think some of the collaborations that, that I worked on perhaps had a part in, in developing, developing those programs and all of the, all of the experts that have come out of… Read More