Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 332
No, I was still involved with the animals. Usually I was the one that made decisions about the animals. Read More
No, I was still involved with the animals. Usually I was the one that made decisions about the animals. Read More
Or were you able to stay?… Read More
Did this new position move you away from animals because you’re now more in the management end of running things?… Read More
No, each park had its own staff and manager or director that had their fingerprint on everything, which was okay. You had to be the manager over these now, other zoo directors. Yes. But I was in the home office in California and all of my directions generally were just… Read More
Were they all supposed to be the same, they always have the same exhibits or were they all different?… Read More
Yeah, sometimes. Read More
Now, did you have to travel to other parks?… Read More
Well, the guy that was my boss left Lion Country, that’s why I moved up. Bill York recommended you for the job and you accepted it. They recommended you. Read More
How did that occur? Did they just come to you or?… Read More
Tell me about when you came from zoo director to corporate manager of all the parks, how did that come to happen?… Read More
I don’t know, You know what, I don’t remember you being necessarily so frustrated on the job. But what you were frustrated with, well, what you were disillusioned by was that, and this was one reason why you left Lion Country, was that there were verbal promises made. The way… Read More
What were the things that frustrated you on the job as director?… Read More
It was a good PR move. Jerry Coburn, our PR guy. Frazier was about a 26 year old lion, came out of a Mexican circus, had very few teeth. Jerry Corbin and I talked about it, Jerry said, “He’s an old animal and females are bringing him food.” And he… Read More
Could you tell me what was his impact on the population and what was his impact on Lion Country?… Read More
Yeah, there would be giraffe in there, white rhino, buffalo, wild dogs, cheetahs, hyenas. Now, you had a lion named Frazier. Frazier’s the Sensuous Lion. Read More
Did you have drive throughs for giraffe?… Read More
Hippo, rhino. You had chimps, that’s one. Chimps. But these were all drive throughs in those areas. Yeah, you drove through those areas. We had islands with animals on it that couldn’t swim. Read More
What did you have at Lion Country?… Read More
God, there’s so many megavertebrates from Africa. Read More
So what kind of animals are the best in an African exhibit, forgetting the lions that are not carnivores?… Read More