Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 467
Well there was a lot of people I respected. I mean, honestly, I respected a lot of them, not that I learned much maybe necessarily, but there was a lot of ones. Read More
Well there was a lot of people I respected. I mean, honestly, I respected a lot of them, not that I learned much maybe necessarily, but there was a lot of ones. Read More
I mean, Bill Conway, Louis di Sablo, just to mention two, you know?… Read More
And there’s plenty, I’m sure there’s more, you know, that I’m passing over. But you know those people, they were, I respected them. And I’m not saying I didn’t learn anything, I mean from them, but I’m just saying they weren’t, I didn’t work with them. You know, I wasn’t… Read More
Who made the biggest impression on you, or maybe was the most famous that had an impact upon the zoo?… Read More
You know, you go to other places, you don’t ever see them doing anything. But here they really were because they weren’t afraid. They didn’t have stress. They had been used to it. In fact, when one, I can tell you right now, when at Lone Pine, there’s a, when… Read More
It didn’t cause any problems, that koala seemed, you know to me when I saw it, I said, “Geez, this koala,” if you can say a koala is ever enjoying anything, this koala was, looked like it’s enjoying it. But I don’t know, but anyway, they really, was the most… Read More
Were there other zoo professionals that you respected, and learned from, that had influence on you?… Read More
And we have, we have the eucalyptus for them, you know, obviously, and they were keepers who were, who that’s what their job was. To find eucalyptus growth, cut the eucalyptus, bring it back, feed it to these koalas. ‘Cause that’s what they, that’s you know, that is all they… Read More
And the city, like Feinstein says, “Oh I’ll find the money, we’ll build it.” I said, “Where am I gonna build an exhibit though?… Read More
I want them in a nice, this nice exhibit.” She says, “Oh, we own a hospital.” So the city was, there’s all kinds of weird things. They owned a hospital, not in the city of San Francisco, but somewhere down in the peninsula, down south. “We own that hospital. We… Read More
That’s what we’ve gotta have.” Well, the only place I could get those, because you know the Australian zoos do not value them very highly, ’cause they’re their own animals, I guess like us exhibiting a raccoon, and they don’t care about them, so they never had them. They never… Read More
But at any rate they did, they supplied us with six koalas, and well the Australian government was going crazy about making these, you know, sure that everything was right. We had to send our bamboo to see they would eat it, which of course they would, because you know,… Read More
He was doing something for the feds, to pass on, on the exhibit. Well, he came and said, “They’ll never survive. They’re all gonna die here.” He said, “The public is gonna make sure that they die here. You know it is,” and he just really, really, you know, wanted… Read More
And was it all worked off the master plan?… Read More
Basically, yes. I think that when we built the koala exhibit, there was another one that, that was very amusing in a way, exhibit or doing it. Feinstein, Mayor Feinstein got involved with Australia somehow. (laughing) I don’t remember how, and she got nutty about getting koalas. And I said,… Read More
I had Craig, the veterinarian, do a survey, research the basic cause of death of koalas in captivity. I said, “You find out,” because the veterinarians have their own database. I said, “What is the reason that these guys, you know, die in captivity?” And of course, I think I… Read More
I said, “We can leave the pool the way it is, but we wanna do other things to make it right for the penguins.” ‘Cause you know, these penguins, they we gonna come from South Africa. You know, the Jackass penguins, of course. Which, a penguin’s, you know, a penguin. Read More
Take it and run. These are for the penguins, this is what we want. We’re getting a whole bunch of these.” And I had Craig, the veterinarian, doing research on the proper food, the best food we can get them, and we did the whole four yards on it, whole… Read More
Some we had to take care of, and we had a whole bunch of people hand-raising them, that they wouldn’t take care of, and we did. I can’t tell you how many, I don’t know where they stand now, but it has to be that, one of the most successful… Read More
So I want a lot of pelicans, of pelicans. Of penguins, I don’t want a lot of pelicans actually, as a matter of fact but, “I want a lot. I mean, as many as you can get for that money that you owe us from the okapi deal, which was… Read More