Oh yeah. And we were always moving things around, we were always bringing new things in. We brought in Hylobares lar, which is the dwarf gibbons from a special island in Asia. They came in with a shipment of Gibbons, but he was a siamang, but a dwarf siamang and… Read More
Did they listen to what you had to say?… Read More
Were they consulting with you?… Read More
Now, were you charged with continuing to build the zoo and continuing to have new attractions or bring animals in?… Read More
Yeah. Public relations. You would have disagreements sometimes, I remember with public relations because public relations was interested in the publicity of it. Sensational. Sensationalism And that’s his job, but he was more interested in sensational stuff, and that may not be very healthy for animals. But he didn’t know… Read More
PR Jerry Coburn, he was the head of PR, right?… Read More
A lot of employees. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Yeah, Lion Country was pretty popular, there was two of them. A lot of employees. Read More
Was this a very popular place?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Now, was there a good attendance?… Read More
Well, it didn’t happen often. Well you got interaction, you get animals in heat, you get males fighting. So all that stuff takes place, that happens in the wild. It’s not like you’re portion feeding an animal in one cage that you do four pounds of feed for every day. Read More
What were some of those differences that you saw, aside from the people getting their heads?… Read More
Oh yeah, we’d meet conferences, we talked. We would visit other places too and we’d get different ideas from each other. Now there are different problems in an open air, safari-like atmosphere than there are in what I would call a zoo that has caging. Read More
Would you talk with other directors of zoos?… Read More
Frank Todd was the curator of bird for SeaWorld. He was the one that ran the penguin show of it, handled all the birds, a good on waterfowl. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Would you tell us who Frank Todd is?… Read More
I’d go to veterinarian friends, number one. Also I had friends in the industry that. Frank Todd, you would call. Frank Todd was a good friend of mine. It was a vet that you would call that would fly, I don’t know what his name was. He used to fly… Read More