I think the answer is this, whatever you do with any species, if you can give that animal what it needs in a first class manner, then, and meeting its needs, not minimally, but in broader terms, okay. But you gotta give it all those things. I’ve had people say… Read More
They’re not just on a, they’re not just moving to move. There’s a stimulus there. So I think you have to be able to give any species more than what it needs, but hopefully, you can do it in a professional manner. Yeah. That makes good sense. Read More
What are you accomplishing?… Read More
If you’re dealing with certain number and you’re doing a good job and you have ex situ in the zoo, and outside of the zoo and, or ex situ, and then in situ in the wilds, you’re doing things, that combination is probably the best thing. So I think Lincoln… Read More
This is kind of a loaded question, but this is one person’s opinion, but how do you feel about zoos especially those in colder climates caring for elephants?… Read More
Who are you in partnership with?… Read More
What’s the relationship with three or four zoos?… Read More
So I think that those things have changed over the years, that in Lincoln Park was the same. There should be less species, but more concentration on what you do with those species. Do you have to show every cat in the world? Maybe not. Maybe you show one or… Read More
You don’t have to have, your reputation doesn’t depend on, “We have the most rattlesnakes species of any zoo in the world.” So what?… Read More
I knew I had to have leaf cutting ants and I did put an exhibit together for that, not the one I wanted to because that would’ve, using their behaviors, I knew what we could have done, but we had that. At the same time, I just knew that a… Read More
What do you think is going on?… Read More
Well, I think part of it is the idea of, and again, so many things I’m saying are not necessarily new, but I think the idea of a postage stamp, one of this, one of this, two of these, one of these has moved past. And now, zoos are trying… Read More
Do you have other genetic lines that you’re looking at?… Read More
They didn’t need me. And I was proudest of that That the team was so well trained that they could do it without me. They didn’t need anybody leaning over their shoulder on what to do. So from the standpoint that I missed it, I feel bad. But from the… Read More
So in all your long years at Lincoln Park Zoo, is there anything that you would hope to accomplish, but were unable to finish?… Read More
The only thing that I wanted to do at Lincoln Park Zoo and I never had the opportunity and I tried was to build an insect pavilion, to build a butterfly aviary, ’cause I knew it was dramatic. I’d seen them around the world, again, visiting. And I knew that… Read More
And literally at the end, we had all kinds of video cameras to record the birth. We, not knowing when it would occur. And we had volunteers every night watching the monitor, every night. And of course, after X number of months, they’re coming in and going, “Mark, what’s the… Read More
As it turns out, I happen to be at one of those teaching assignments for this Smithsonian, I was out of the country and I missed the birth. Oh geez. But the important thing there, I think is that people said to me, “Mark, you must feel bad that you… Read More
What could happen in this instance?… Read More
What would happen if this happened?… Read More