No, I don’t know that that really did, it didn’t discourage an interest in it but I don’t think it really in encouraged it more. It was just like, oh, this is kind of neat. So, getting the job at the zoo, your first job, your first zoo job at… Read More
And while I was out there, I was also looking for the black-footed ferret and really had determined that it was pretty well been extirpated out the state of Kansas. Read More
But that study didn’t make you really want to go into wildlife management or did it?… Read More
Well, actually it’s interested in being a mammalogist, I think when I was at KU. E Raymond Hall, very prominent mammalogist, academic mammalogist was a major professor and he had a project. It was a 10 year reevaluation of the black-tailed prairie dogs in the state of Kansas, the populations. Read More
How’d you get in the study?… Read More
You did some studies with the black-tailed prairie dogs and how’d that come about?… Read More
Yeah, that was- Is this is widely known in the zoological fields among your colleagues?… Read More
No, not at all. Now it is. (laughter) You mentioned wildlife management. You had been thinking about that. Read More
(laughter) Our extensive research. Yeah, extensive research. (laughter) Pretty funny. Read More
(laughs) Every brother’s got a name and some of ’em had to do with your appearance and I guess I have a pear-head. Read More
So, that’s how I got my name Pear-head and how did you find that out?… Read More
What’s with the name Pear-head?… Read More
Theta Chi Gama?… Read More
Theta Chi. The Gama chapter is the a chapter name but the national fraternity is Theta Chi. Read More
Now, when you talked about college, what kind of schooling did you have?… Read More
My formal education is Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska. I’m a Cornhusker having to live out my life in Oklahoma, which is tough. And it was a liberal arts school and I got sort of a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from there. Then I did two years of graduate… Read More
And I thought, you know what, I guess I really haven’t. And then I applied for a job at the Kansas City Zoo in 1967 and the rest is history. Read More
I think I was interested in working with animals as I grew older. After I got outta high school and went to college, being a Zoology major and wanting to work with animals, you realized that if you were going to do it, there were probably two ways to do… Read More
So, then actually somebody suggested, well, have you thought about zoos?… Read More
I visited the local zoos, obviously the Kansas City Zoo. I went to high school in Omaha. My father was transferred into Omaha. And so, we went to the Omaha Zoo that time, which was a Park and Rec Zoo which was pretty bad at that time. If we went… Read More