Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 268
What prompted you to leave Lincoln Park, and where did you go?… Read More
What prompted you to leave Lincoln Park, and where did you go?… Read More
Well, I went to San Francisco and became the zoo director there. Read More
But back up, what prompted you to leave Lincoln?… Read More
Was that a team effort?… Read More
It was, because when I left, it still wasn’t finished, you know?… Read More
So others obviously added to that too, sure. Now you leave Lincoln Park in 1975. Yes. Read More
That I learned for myself, by- For yourself, your time at Lincoln Park Zoo, or that you learned about the zoo world that you worked in?… Read More
Well, I mean everything, you know, everything I know basically was learned by, through experience and. You came into contact with- Dealers- Who were potentially not as honest as you would like them to be. You had to learn how to deal with those individuals. Well you learned, I think… Read More
Well I, my experience showed me what they like to do, things that they like to do. And obviously the wild has a great effect on that too. It’s the same kind of thing. But it just showed me what they liked to do, and how they made nests, so… Read More
Well, I don’t know. He was a very forceful person. (laughing) Commissioner Schick was a very forceful person, a very, a great benefactor for the zoo. He, you know actually he was, he really was. And I can’t say that, you know, I didn’t have anywhere near as much contact… Read More
But you know, you wanted to treat that person with the respect that he deserved, and that’s what you, you know, showed me that, keep doing that and you’ll be okay. You would be, and wherever you went, you could be that way if you treated them that way, that… Read More
Was there any important things that you learned from your Lincoln park Zoo experience about maybe yourself as an individual working with animals or the zoo world in general?… Read More
Did Lester, Dr. Fisher come back to you and ask you about that statement?… Read More
Because I know he got some notoriety for it. I don’t recall, I don’t recall that he did. Now you had to deal with members, while you were at Lincoln Park, with members of the park, commissioners, you had exposure to them. Yeah, yeah. What did dealing with some people,… Read More
What was that starting, maybe to teach you about relationships with those type of people that later on you would come in contact with?… Read More
Well, (chuckling) when I said that, obviously I didn’t mean that I would actually eat the kangaroo. But it was meant, because it was such an unusual statement, I felt, that it was meant to show people that there was no kangaroo out there at all, and that’s why I… Read More
I mean, that was the whole thing, you know?… Read More
They couldn’t be reached by radio and they were running after this kangaroo, which obviously was incorrect. And I knew it, and everybody else knew it too, and that’s why I said that. Read More
Makes you the proudest?… Read More
Oh, well I think that what makes me the proudest, I think is that, you know, we did things I think, that I helped build a primate collection that was a real good one, a lot of unusual animals in it. I think that the care, being extremely careful about… Read More