Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 251
The first thing I ask is how do you operate a zoo in the winter?… Read More
The first thing I ask is how do you operate a zoo in the winter?… Read More
You don’t get the visitation in the winter, but it’s wonderful experience. I mean I see people all the time in the winter when I’m there that say I love coming to the zoo in the winter. They don’t have the crowds. And we had enough, we had enough winter… Read More
And so that changed. We didn’t go to 200,000 guests in January, but it went from 30 to 60,000 or something, you know. And so that, that’s kind of that. And then you, then you have to have some indoor spaces. So for instance, our giraffe and our rhino barn,… Read More
Are there different considerations in exhibit design for a winter in a summer zoo?… Read More
Oh my god, yes. And I knew nothing about it when I moved from Sacramento to Cleveland. Read More
Our education setup, we had a program that we could, you know, get on TVs with, with, I can’t remember some other country, I think it was in Africa actually South Africa, we, I don’t know how we did it time-wise, but we could bring a class into our distance… Read More
So it brought the zoo sort of out to people in a classroom, but they could see the zoo, the zoo on the tv. Read More
What is distance learning in how you approach education?… Read More
Well, you need to build for both or all three. For instance, as, as I was talking to you earlier, maybe at lunch, the old bear grottos had nowhere and the keepers had to crawl through the animal doors. That’s just not, not sustainable. So that’s the keeper end. So… Read More
So, so those are the kind of things you think about with animals. With the elephants, we wanted to have for instance elevated feeders that gives the elephants a chance with their trunks and to lift up and get on their back feet and that kind of thing. And places. Read More
It’s not all concrete and bars, which we don’t do anymore. So I think for all three you, you definitely have to build for all three the best you can. Read More
Well, again, through, through volunteers and, and graphics explaining where the animals are. You know, some people will appreciate the fact that our Bonner book have a couple of acres and they can be anywhere under trees or whatever. Other people say, I came to your zoo, I didn’t see… Read More
Sure. Can you elaborate?… Read More
What exhibit considerations did you have to take into account for visitors viewing space, species in a large space?… Read More
How does this work? So now I’m at home, Sarah. So my wife has to take me with technology. Fortunately the Apple store is 10 minutes from my house, unfortunately, they know me by name. But anyway, technology’s difficult and it changes so much I can’t every day they seem… Read More
How did you achieve that?… Read More
No, because you remember we were part of Metro Park, so I had no administrative staff. So hr, it, finance, they were all a part of Metro parks, which is good and bad, but you know, and so I didn’t, I didn’t have any of those responsibilities, but obviously they… Read More
I know we used to do it in the old day with mailers, you know, and so we would buy a list of parent magazine, you know, or something that would relate to, to, to zoos and that would be the list we would use. So they do the same… Read More
When you were at the zoo, did you hire anybody for technology?… Read More
And but when I was working I could say, Marsha, how does this work?… Read More