No, after I left they had the foundation, I don’t know what the relationship was, but it wasn’t a good one, they eventually closed it down. Which never would have happened, if I’d been there but people have different ideas on things. Now, today, the zoo profession has changed greatly… Read More
Is St. Catherine’s Island still doing these kind of programs?… Read More
I had been with a group of Indian biologists, and wildlife people and they were very interested in the lion-tails. I wanted to get them to St. Catherine’s Island to “see what you do at zoo.” They were not interested in zoo-born animals. They did not want lion-tailed macaques being… Read More
It was great, really great and they learned how to forage and learned how to get water. They would take Spanish moss, find a crotch in a tree that had water laying in it from the last rain, put the Spanish moss in there, sponge up the water, put it… Read More
What could be better than this?… Read More
They’re a tough monkey. Here we are in the middle of this island and I’m standing there with lion-tailed macaques on the ground all around me, feeding, looking for insects, acorns, or whatever. They paid no attention to me. Read More
It was wonderful. And one of the greatest things. Oh, and, I didn’t want them to associate feeding with the keepers. I didn’t want them coming begging for food from keepers, so we supplemented the lemurs and the macaques to make sure they were getting adequate nutrition. So we brought… Read More
We released a group of lion-tailed macaques on the island. They had this nice group in New York. Unfortunately, it was heavy on males, but there were females that were breeding. I kept the State of Georgia aware of what we were doing. They had no problem with doing anything… Read More
I didn’t want them to come together too soon. I wanted them to come together the way they might in nature, on Madagascar, which in time they did. But it was wonderful because they were raising babies there. Oh we caught them after a year, we trapped them all and… Read More
We radio-collared them, we weighed them. We checked them out for parasites. We built a holding facility for them, for when we were introducing them and then after time, we opened the door so they could go out. They began exploring. And it was wonderful watching them learning where to… Read More
In many species, less than 50% reach a year of age. Well, we didn’t give up on the species it’s something we couldn’t do. If the best we could do is 50% survivability after a year, that would not be a winning program for any zoo to want to participate… Read More
Wonderful place for cranes, they would march the yards and they would do very well, so we had a lot of cranes there. And then John Bailey came down and wanted to put some tortoises down there. And then he did, and he started raising radiated tortoises down there on… Read More
We were offered the use of not all, but some part of this island. It had a warm climate and there was no public to deal with. We could do things there that we couldn’t do in New York or couldn’t do expansively. So we went down and we looked… Read More
Well, I’m sorry. I should have mentioned that in my last little comment to you. We had a wonderful trustee who had his own private bird collection and liked animals, was interested in animals. He was the head of a board that owned an island off the coast of Georgia,… Read More
How much input did you have as to what was gonna be done on this island?… Read More
When you were speaking about the wild, how did the Bronx Choir, the use of St. Catherine’s Island, what was the purpose of it?… Read More
And as we get to know more about them and know more about where they come from, you make determination. But I have a feeling that we’re headed towards a time when there’ll be large national parks that will be zoos. There’ll be fences around them. Keep the animals safe… Read More
Is, is there wild zoo places to put these animals?… Read More
That’s the big problem today. Read More
Is there wild to do that?… Read More