Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 307
What is your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
What is your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
In what ways do you think that you altered the science or the art of veterinary medicine in the zoo field?… Read More
I, I think it does. And, and to be honest, I think, you know, some of the, some of the things, and, and this is just my personal perspective, I think when, you know, as a, as an inspector, as an accreditation commissioner, it was a little bit easier to,… Read More
I, I think the, the biggest thing that I’ve done in my approach has really been developing collaborations. And so I think getting together, getting together with my predecessor here at Brookfield when I was at Lincoln Park and working with University of Illinois and, and the other zoos to… Read More
What are the indicators of good welfare and how does each animal stack up on a regular basis?… Read More
So it’s become, it’s become a real integral part of managing zoo populations across the board. Read More
Is this something that helps and assists zoos in dealing with people who don’t think there should be zoos?… Read More
Those are the things that we’ve provided. How are you doing?… Read More
What are the, what are the indicators of poor welfare?… Read More
How are we doing? And, and so we’ve developed methods and welfare assessments are a process that need to be developed by each institution to determine how an animal’s welfare is and if an animal’s welfare is on the decline. And so that’s a process that needs to occur for… Read More
Oh, absolutely. And, and I think, And can you speak to what that means?… Read More
Absolutely. I, I think the, I I don’t want to get into too much technical animal behavior speak, but I think zoos, and I’m speaking mostly from my experience working in a ZA, I’ve been on the accreditation commission, I’ve done lots of accreditation inspections, and so I’m familiar with… Read More
Do zoos and aqua need to be more involved with animal welfare?… Read More
Well, I I think the, the kind of the, the pinnacle of zoo based training is really the residency internships are typically for veterinarians that are right outta school. They tend to be a year long. And, and those are important to any postgraduate education programs focused in a zoo… Read More
And so I think that combination was very helpful for me. A number of our veterinarians have similar experiences with, they have an internship in a, a different aspect of veterinary medicine and then a zoo residency. And we have, we have residents, we have a resident, we’re part of… Read More
So it’s a, and and this is a three year program that, that they do in, that they do at the three facilities, university of Illinois, Brookfield and shed Aquarium, Just to be clear. So at the end of that three years, they’re not a full-time veterinarian at the zoo. Read More
What is it accomplishing?… Read More
I, I think it’s in terms of, in terms of the veterinarian needing to go around and see all the animals in order to, in order to have an idea of what’s going on or in order to spot sick animals, that’s, that’s probably less important. And I think that’s… Read More
And, and speaking of residencies or internships, how important is it to be zoo intern?… Read More
Has this zoo has a, a veterinarian as its director?… Read More