Well, you were breeding of course, trying to breed. Breed them, I mean breed animals. And I think that the, one of things that I was big about was causing, or looking at the population of an animal in all the zoos, like in the United States. You know, it’s,… Read More
What’d you mean, and do think people understood or accepted that statement?… Read More
I don’t know, but I think that, I think that Lincoln Park was a great example. I used to use this, that yeah, there were bars at Lincoln Park. There were gorillas in bars. Well, look at what they were doing. Look how many gorillas they were producing, and the… Read More
And well, they sort of agreed to that, I guess. You know, which they didn’t have to have course anyway, but I didn’t want to make enemies right away. So, but that was okay. But that was just one instance of the thing. Read More
In response to an article in the “Rotarian” magazine, you wrote that, “Zoos may not save all the animals, but they’re going to, but they are going to be able to save a lot of them.” what was your zoo and others doing in this regard?… Read More
He’s taking these animals, these are our favorites.” (laughing) So that was one of the first eye-openers sort of, it shouldn’t have been, I guess, but it was to me. But I persevered, I didn’t back down. Read More
I said, “Well,” I told them the reason why, you know?… Read More
Oh, you know, they have common antlers, you know what they are, we had them- Fallow?… Read More
We had fallow deer in a nice exhibit. I mean, it was a good exhibit, but, You know, I don’t think they needed the help. So I just, I said, “You know, we could do a lot better, and it would be better for the public too, I think. But… Read More
So they were saying, “What is he doing, what’s he doing?” The same people who said they want change were saying, “What is he doing?… Read More
Well, I of course, I’ve always thought that it was a big thing in our, or else it should be part of our deal, you know?… Read More
And they didn’t really have a good idea of the kind of animals that they should have. In other words, it costs the same amount of money to keep a common antelope say, as it does to keep something rare. Same amount of money. Why not go to the one… Read More
We want you to change this zoo.” And I said, “I will do so, I will do it.” And so I remember getting rid of, (chuckling) I don’t remember what the heck it was that I got rid of. I got rid of some very common deer. Maybe, it was… Read More
There’s nobody to do it. And there was no, like lot of zoos would have educational graphics, you know, and that kind of stuff, which you should have. And there was nobody to do that either. So the first budget I had to deal with, I said I wanted to… Read More
They should have this,” so we got it. (laughing) And that’s, so everything, not everything is unlike Chicago, a lot of it’s the same. And that’s how we got it, and that’s how I got that position. And she did that and she was really, Elizabeth, Linda Taylor, and she… Read More
How was conservation at the zoo at the time you came in, and what role did you see the zoo playing?… Read More
Did you have any vision of what you wanted to put forth in education?… Read More
Well, one of the things that I really wanted, and this actually worked out well. One of the things I wanted was to do to, well let me say, first of all, there was almost there was essentially no zoo staff. And basically there was only a couple of people,… Read More
How would you make a sign to tell what, to say what an animal is, who’s gonna do that?… Read More
And they all got sent away to, it was to Washington. That’s where they, I don’t know why, but in Washington state, that’s where they were making the decision. And as it turns out, we got approved. And the city couldn’t say no, because it got to where, there was… Read More