Yeah. That his major publications that zoo people hopefully will continue to read. Well, indeed, I hope, Hediger is still an inspiration in terms of the diversity of interest that he exhibited in respect to animal behavior. And he, not only inspired people in terms of further studies in animal… Read More
I’m sorry?… Read More
Can you mention Hediger’s works?… Read More
For the record, can you mention his works?… Read More
Were you able to expand internationally with people in Europe that were doing research?… Read More
In terms of international endeavors and linkages, et cetera, there were really, really this country, in terms of zoos and aquariums, was hardly in the game compared to the established tradition in Europe. But early on, remarkably enough, I made the acquaintance on one of their visits was the Hedigers. Read More
But as a result of my editing Copeia for several years and other work with the herpetological community, I became president of the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, So that, again, gave additional exposure in terms of both the international field, because it was the principal journal in the… Read More
In terms of relationships nationally and internationally, and in respect to research, it was largely in regard to animal behavior. I was quite active in getting the animal behavior effort going in this country. And indeed one of my students whom I was co-chair on her committee, Anne Clark, who… Read More
I mean, I continued my herpetological involvement by being the editor of Copeia, the main journal in the herpetological field, the main professional journal. And I got into that because of my friend Bob Inger at the Field Museum. He was editor of Copeia and he took off for the… Read More
George, what type of relationships were you able to develop in the research field when you were at the zoo, both nationally and internationally?… Read More
In terms of where I thought it might be, the program that I might foster might go clearly, I saw more than one challenge in terms of the future. And For instance, one of the things I appreciated early on is that there wasn’t a formal education program at Brookfield. Read More
And it happened that with our, so to speak, accidental discovery of the complex mating ritual of the Surinam toad, that I got into studying the behavior of those creatures, the reproductive behavior. But at the same time, because of the interest of people at the University of Chicago, I… Read More
Did you have a thought process of where you wanted to take this?… Read More
Well, the staff was, they were accepting and as I say with Snedigar, the curator of reptiles and amphibians, so he was certainly embracing, especially with my museum background. And the other principal curator was Karl Plath, who was curator birds. And Karl had an artist background. Indeed was still… Read More
And then the process, we were sampling the urine from all of the primates. And there was considerable resistance to sampling all of the primates, especially when you’re cramming them into steel cages to get uncontaminated urine. But eventually some came around, Jim Raul, for instance, in the small mammal… Read More
Were you embraced by the staff?… Read More
Was it, any other zoo ever at the time have anything like this?… Read More
Not really, not really, Mark, in terms of the field as a whole. There simply wasn’t the consistent application. I was proceeded in terms of my position by an investigator at New York at Bronx Zoo in the middle 30s. They had hired a man who was into animal behavior,… Read More
So it was quite an occasion at the University of Chicago when people from all over the world came to testify to the importance of that singular work in terms of how we had come to be, how we had evolved, and so on, and so forth. So that reinforced… Read More
So this university connection was a very positive one for the zoo. Read More