Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 264
How realistic is reproductive technology in breeding endangered species?… Read More
How realistic is reproductive technology in breeding endangered species?… Read More
But, but there, you know, there are more, these exceptions rather than having it become, you know, sort of an integral part of management for most species. You talked about pandas and conservation regarding conservation. Read More
I think the, I I think one of the things that we’ve learned is we are not, it, it’s not likely that zoos are gonna become, for instance, like dairy cattle, pretty much no farms that are dairy farms have dairy bulls to, to breed with the, the dairy cows… Read More
Speaking of, of design elements and so forth, what do you think has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their, their collection to their visitors?… Read More
I, I think things have, things have really advanced and, and I think one of the, of the keys in interpretation is, is not just, you know, kind of going over a natural history of these animals and quoting from walker’s, mammals of the world on, on habitat or the… Read More
We we’re trying to drive conservation, but you start that by having people make that connection with the animal and having people develop a, a caring attitude towards that, that animal, that species animals in the wild. And then having that drive conservation actions on, on the part of our… Read More
It much more, and this is, this is true on the human side and the veterinary side. When I was a practicing small animal veterinarian, I did orthopedic surgery, I did abdominal surgery, did minor ophthalmic procedures that almost no veterinarians in private practice would do today. Those are all,… Read More
Well, as, as I mentioned before, one of the big advances in zoo medicine is really integrating veterinarians in zoo management. And a, the things that, you know, in terms of things that might cause problems to an animal, whether they’re physical, developmental, nutritional, behavioral, those things that might eventually… Read More
And, and when you talk about specialists, and you mentioned it, how important is it to include the veterinarian when exhibit design is taking place?… Read More
I, I think there were, there were two different things. One was the mom’s behavior and how elephants give birth. And, you know, mother elephants don’t have hands, they can’t pick them up and put them upright, you know, so they’re pushing the kid around with their feet and they… Read More
How, how important is it for a veterinarian, a zoo veterinarian to be able to perform surgery?… Read More
It’s not necessarily a skill that they’re all expert at, or do you rely on experts?… Read More
So you mitigate a risk of anesthesia by doing one instead of two or three and, and you have somebody there that’s more likely to be able to, to have a good impact on the problem at hand. And speaking of preparation, you’ve been involved with the birth of an… Read More
And it was because it had something like a plant on in its ear that could have been immobilize the animal, take 10 minutes, look, pull something out when you first saw an animal irritating it, perhaps put it on a course of antibiotics that, that could have saved its… Read More
What would you say were the key medical considerations that you had to be concerned with and how key were these preparations, both from a medical standpoint and a management standpoint?… Read More
That’s something where you have the opportunity to kind of put your heads together and not necessarily vote on it, but, but to, to have input from a number of different individuals. But it’s very unlikely that there’s one single right way to approach a particular medical problem. In your… Read More
Can you explain the phrase, when you say balancing risk versus reward and how that played out in one particular case of the sedation of a large gor at Lincoln Park Zoo, that phrase risk versus reward?… Read More
Well, I, I think so. So the concern is you want to, you want to make sure that the, the benefit that you are going to get from a particular procedure is worth the risk of anesthesia. And, and as I, as I mentioned before, the risk of anesthesia is… Read More
You know, when you’re making the decision, do we, you know, do we put an animal under the knife to do a 10 hour brain surgery?… Read More
I, I, I, I heard, and this was, this was not in the context of veterinary medicine, but I’ve heard management trainers say, if, if I have 10 people that work for me and they all have all the same opinions as me, then I got 10 people that I… Read More