Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 449
I, how do you justify a zoo to, to an educated public?… Read More
I, how do you justify a zoo to, to an educated public?… Read More
Did you feel that the people who worked at the Houston Zoo and, and possibly Disney, but certainly the Houston Zoo from the groundskeeper up understood the mission of the zoo At Houston?… Read More
And they didn’t all know how to answer the questions to the public the same way. But they knew who to go to. So a a a lot of people get more pride for working for the zoo because now they’re working for something that’s making a difference and they… Read More
Yes, and it got even better after I left because they just, we, we had an incredible conservation team. We, we, a lot of times you’ll send animal people over on a conservation project, but we were able to send technical people over sometimes to help with websites. We could… Read More
It’s part of one family. We’re all one family. And if you can do that family approach, I call it the one team approach. There’s the one plan approach that everybody talks about that, you know, that’s, that’s about working together too. But the one team approach is everybody’s on… Read More
We’re not just a, a zoo for the, for the public here. We have, we have a much broader, more encompassing mission. And that, and those boards that get that, because the, the director answers to the board, if the, if you get the board to, to support you, you… Read More
Some do more than others. Some are doing great jobs and, and we’re getting better at it. But I don’t think zoo directors thought that the board was that interested in conservation. The board was interested in, oh, just make this zoo great for our community. It’s all about our… Read More
And do they walk the talk? Do they deliver on their promise?… Read More
Again, I don’t think zoos thought that they should budget for conservation. They thought it was a nice to have. It’s not, it’s your core mission. It’s almost the word or, or it’s implied that every, almost every mission statement in any major accredited a ZA zoo in this country. Read More
But it really helped certain zoos, like Cincinnati, We’re gonna talk about different aspects of conservation, but what do you think was the most difficult concept for zoos to understand and implement regarding their relationship to conservation?… Read More
And, but you know, you, you, you draw a line in the sand and you fall on your sword for certain things. But white tigers to me was, you know, it was a phase and now, now you can get ’em almost free. You know, they’re not, they’re not very… Read More
What are the, the, the goods and the bads of white tigers?… Read More
Like you said, there’s, there was good aspects to it. If you ask Ed Marca, it really, it really helped his zoo. ’cause he would, he would breed them. I, I’m not a fan of white tigers because it’s, it’s, it occurs in nature very rarely, but it usually occurs… Read More
So I, so I went to, I went to Cincinnati and bought two cups, you know, from the same litter, a male and a female. I think there was $60,000 each at that point, $120,000. My director said, no problem. We put ’em out there. Public loved them, but it… Read More
It’s still an in incredible place, white oak. And, and I think that, that, that one could be a model for the future for private ownership. I’m not sure the one in India is gonna be that way. ’cause I think that, that, that’s a much larger collection of animals. Read More
Was it a capture? But in the end, he’s got very good facilities. I haven’t been to the one in, in India. I was talking to a colleague that had been there and was really blown away with what he’s doing. But it, if he’s not also helping animals in… Read More
The, the, when you use the word rescue sometimes, and you, you, you gotta make sure, is it really a rescue?… Read More
I’ll figure that one out too. But conservation’s different, it’s much more complex ’cause you have to cooperate with other people. And most of these, most of these people made their money not by cooperating, not by diversifying but by taking big risks and it worked for them. So, you… Read More
And it was, it is a beautiful place. He sold it to a a where he died and then the, and then the attorneys got, didn’t handle the finances right. So it had to go for sale. Fortunately, the new owner, Mark Walter, who owns the Dodgers and a lot… Read More
And you got a lot of, the little, the little private facilities are, are kind of like that. The, the big billionaires, they do it for different reasons, but I just don’t see unless, and they don’t wanna have a board because they don’t wanna be billionaires, don’t want to… Read More