I just, I, I knew people that had did it, so I just applied. I found out there was a company that provides lectures to a couple of cruise lines and I just applied for them. And there was one that fit my expertise went from Costa Rica to San… Read More
I thought, well why not do that if it makes money?… Read More
So I put a gift shop in the wolf wilderness. I put one up in the cat and primate building and put one in Australia and they’re all gone now. I think it’s just the cost of staff. So they have a gift shop at the entrance and I think… Read More
Well certainly with Exhibitry seeing the good exhibits that tell, again, I’m a big believer in telling a story, not just having a wolf exhibit. These are wolfs. So our wolf exhibit, you go through a log cabin and we have a story about how trappers had it and turned… Read More
How has this helped to shape your philosophy in any way?… Read More
And speaking of graphics, you had indicated, you know, people have a Zoom app on their phone and stuff and theres are more Zoom apps and you kind of lamented, I thought a bit about that. Read More
Do you feel that zoo guide books and and the zoom maps and things are just a thing of the past?… Read More
Probably. Probably. I like ’em. We did one, we did one, we had one that our gift shops have, but we only did one guide book and then it was out of date as soon as we did it ’cause we didn’t have those animals or whatever. So yeah, those… Read More
I didn’t have any magic, magic things but there any, anyway, there are some stories you just don’t want to do long narratives, that’s for sure. And people now can take their phone out and put in seminar horned ORs if they really wanna know a lot of information. Read More
So do you really need a lot of graphics, you Know?… Read More
Does this animal look like there’s something that would climb a tree or something?… Read More
You have to have pictures and a few facts. Did you have ideas about it at Cleveland that you were trying to Well I, I think our education department did it all. Again, I think with the idea of asking a question or can you see this or something was… Read More
But if you remember one of my, some of my favorite labels, and you’ll know this is the Bronx Sues bird house. Conway did those labels years ago and they were very humorous at a stork with a, with a baby and then, you know, cartoon drawings. And I thought… Read More
Is this animal laying down or does this animals whatever?… Read More
And I think that’s, do you see this?… Read More
It seems like there’s no magic bullet. No, there is no magic bullet. I think there’s some good strategies. First of all, I, you gotta have the name and the scientific name. I know that nobody looks at it, but you gotta at least have a label that gives the… Read More
Here’s an interesting, what does one need to think about in designing signage for animal exhibits?… Read More
And then I think about what Cleveland’s done that I really like is they’re very simple labels, but they ask a question for instance, can you see something about this animal that you could observe?… Read More
So we tried to have enough stuff in the winter, but it’s not the same experience we used to have. And I don’t think they do it anymore. We used to have a discount at rate too, but I don’t think they do that anymore. So those are some of… Read More
You see ’em eat and you see the keepers work with them and stuff. So it’s, it’s, it’s okay. Read More