I would say there are probably less than there have, there, there are many of them that happen on the, the national level, you know, those species survival programs or SSPs frequently make breeding recommendations that that call for moving animals from one population to another, one institution to another. Read More
Yeah, I, I think from a, from a medical standpoint, you, you really want to know the status of the population that the animal is coming from as well as the one that it’s going to. And, and that’s been a, a big change. We don’t, we don’t always quarantine… Read More
So specifically when you were involved with the movement of the bear to Venezuela, what veterinary concerns did you have and how did you try and mitigate them?… Read More
And specifically because you’ve had experience, can you relate some of your experiential things such as the spectacle bear to South America or other examples of that type of movement of animals and what veterinarians and managers had to consider?… Read More
What medical issues do managers and veterinarians need to consider when moving animals nationally or internationally?… Read More
I think the, the thing that gives me hope is, is starting to really make some headway with zoos and zoo clinicians starting to, are continuing, continuing to develop partnerships for conservation locally and globally and, and trying to look at medicine a little bit more broadly and, and trying… Read More
What worries you about conservation within the zoo field and, and what gives you hope?… 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s not necessarily a skill that they’re all expert at, or do you rely on experts?… Read More
How, how important is it for a veterinarian, a zoo veterinarian to be able to perform surgery?… 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
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