It was wonderful. And one of the greatest things. Oh, and, I didn’t want them to associate feeding with the keepers. I didn’t want them coming begging for food from keepers, so we supplemented the lemurs and the macaques to make sure they were getting adequate nutrition. So we brought… Read More
We released a group of lion-tailed macaques on the island. They had this nice group in New York. Unfortunately, it was heavy on males, but there were females that were breeding. I kept the State of Georgia aware of what we were doing. They had no problem with doing anything… Read More
I didn’t want them to come together too soon. I wanted them to come together the way they might in nature, on Madagascar, which in time they did. But it was wonderful because they were raising babies there. Oh we caught them after a year, we trapped them all and… Read More
We radio-collared them, we weighed them. We checked them out for parasites. We built a holding facility for them, for when we were introducing them and then after time, we opened the door so they could go out. They began exploring. And it was wonderful watching them learning where to… Read More
In many species, less than 50% reach a year of age. Well, we didn’t give up on the species it’s something we couldn’t do. If the best we could do is 50% survivability after a year, that would not be a winning program for any zoo to want to participate… Read More
Wonderful place for cranes, they would march the yards and they would do very well, so we had a lot of cranes there. And then John Bailey came down and wanted to put some tortoises down there. And then he did, and he started raising radiated tortoises down there on… Read More
We were offered the use of not all, but some part of this island. It had a warm climate and there was no public to deal with. We could do things there that we couldn’t do in New York or couldn’t do expansively. So we went down and we looked… Read More
Well, I’m sorry. I should have mentioned that in my last little comment to you. We had a wonderful trustee who had his own private bird collection and liked animals, was interested in animals. He was the head of a board that owned an island off the coast of Georgia,… Read More
How much input did you have as to what was gonna be done on this island?… Read More
When you were speaking about the wild, how did the Bronx Choir, the use of St. Catherine’s Island, what was the purpose of it?… Read More
And as we get to know more about them and know more about where they come from, you make determination. But I have a feeling that we’re headed towards a time when there’ll be large national parks that will be zoos. There’ll be fences around them. Keep the animals safe… Read More
Is, is there wild zoo places to put these animals?… Read More
That’s the big problem today. Read More
Is there wild to do that?… Read More
Can the animals be reintroduced, into the wild?… Read More
And that, I think has worked out very well. And from that came the species viable plan, taxonomy groups, that are focusing on different species within the species plans. And that was something Bill Conway started and it has worked very well. The species are getting a lot of attention… Read More
What can we do to make their programs better?… Read More
I suppose it has. There’s more interest in endangered species. We didn’t have any endangered species list when we started in the zoo field. That drives some of our efforts. Find what’s endangered, don’t lose what’s endangered. Read More
Has the role of the curator changed from when you started?… Read More
Then words explaining how they use their nose. And so, brief messages like this are something that we can do well because we have the animals in there and now we’re learning something about them and you can learn something about them too. Read More