Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 88
How are you gonna do it?… Read More
How are you gonna do it?… Read More
How are you gonna know to do it and what to do?… Read More
The right thing to do so the animal is taken care of, and not, you know, not killed in the process. And it’s very difficult for people who have never done it before. It’s impossible, I think. And so Warren Thomas is director. Read More
Well, we- When we first started at the Omaha Zoo, (laughing) they weren’t any different than it was at Oklahoma City Zoo. I was taking care of the primates. Read More
I was the guy, and other things too actually, because by then I had really gotten experience with other animals, you know?… Read More
And so I was actually taking care of them, many of them, and doing things, you know, like in the wintertime we would go down and chip ice out of the bear claws, and I was doing that too. So, and once again, the whole thing of being, doing everything… Read More
Well, they were offering more than double what he made, and he wasn’t about to go there naked without other people that he knew. So he wanted to take me with him, and he wanted to take another couple of people with him. Alberto Rogers, who some people know, was… Read More
And I thought it was a good idea to move up, and then I wouldn’t be even called keeper anymore. I’d be called general curator. So I said, “Well, that sounded good to me.” And so we went up there. He went first, and later on I came a few… Read More
What were your responsibilities as general curator at this zoo?… Read More
Well, I was always interested in them, I think, but being close to them, ’cause I was so close to them. Yes, I was so close to them I believe it did, you know, really stimulate me, so I really did get, and I think love is exactly the word… Read More
And so it became quite a, but anyway, he was, he got a big, relatively big name for himself. And some people came to see him from the Omaha Zoo, that they wanted to build a better zoo in Omaha. ‘Cause they had a, really a little place there in… Read More
Okay, we’ll get to that, I’m just curious, Were you involved in budget things with the director?… Read More
Were you involved in any of that or you were just, your job was taking care of primates?… Read More
No I wasn’t, yeah no, I was not really involved that much. In the budgeting and things like that, no I wasn’t. Read More
Do you think this formative years kind of got you your love of the great apes, or your interest?… Read More
Okay, where did the Al, working for Al Oeming come in?… Read More
(laughing) That was later. That was from, when I was at the Omaha Zoo. Okay. Read More
Now this was approximately 1963 to 1966. Read More
Is that approximately, that you were at the zoo?… Read More
Yes. Now this was your first zoo job. Yes. Just so I can put it in perspective. Yeah, it was my first zoo job. Read More