Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 547
It’s really good for our city. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s a community treasure. Read More
It’s really good for our city. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s a community treasure. Read More
It’s not that, why should we give money to animals when we got people starving over here?… Read More
Invite, did You have to do it at Disney?… Read More
Oh, in, oh no, it, well, Disney, you had higher ups that did that kind of stuff. You know, if they had to meet with the mayor, sometimes we have, we’d have them come out the, the local mayor and stuff. But you bring them to your facility and you… Read More
Do you give it a, a trophy even when it comes in last, you know, you, you gotta exper you’ve gotta experience both, you know, the, the highs and the lows of life. And I don’t know how you do that with animal welfare. ’cause animal welfare is just always… Read More
Is there, what do you think is the most efficient way to deal with elected officials and municipal bureaucrats in order to develop and manage the zoo today?… Read More
Definitely. So animal wellbeing is a, I guess is the term that they use now. But, you know, Terry Maple was a big, he led the charge on that a lot. I think sometimes we, we make assumptions about animals though. Like we handle them with kit gloves and we… Read More
Do you just reward the kid every time for whatever they do?… Read More
Do you think zoos and aquariums need to, are more involved with animal welfare as a group?… Read More
I I think many of my colleagues that are still directors, if I say, are you having fun right now?… Read More
They don’t know how to answer that. We talked about animal rights, animal welfare. Read More
You know, you came in late 10 times, we’ve warned you now you come in late and now you’re gonna be fired because you just, it just doesn’t sink in. So dealing with people as, as you get promoted to more supervisory positions, you get more alienated from the animals… Read More
What, what was the most challenging animal?… Read More
And you go, why, why did you do that?… Read More
I said, the human. I said, I said, the animals aren’t always looking to change. They’re creatures of habit. Don’t change too much. You know, unless it’s for the good, you know. But, but people, the more you give ’em, the more they want. Sometimes the, when you have 400… Read More
What’d you mean?… Read More
I’ve had so many people come up and says, wow, you know, you, you’ve, you’ve worked with all these animals. Read More
And, and being a good leader means NBWA management by walking around. You’ve said the difficulty is always the people, not the animals. Read More
I think it’s important, first of all, for their own psyche. If you’re gonna sit in your desk all the time and just be in meetings all the time and worry about things, you are gonna get depressed. You’re not gonna enjoy your job. Nobody sees you. No. You know,… Read More
And they weren’t, they weren’t, the board didn’t think they were at the zoo enough. So you have to be, it’s a, it’s a balance. And I’ve seen zoo directors that do a good job and then the new chair, chairman of the board comes in and says, I don’t… Read More