Interview 14294 – Caption Index: 292
During this time, was animal care preventive medicine changing during this time that you were doing the move?… Read More
During this time, was animal care preventive medicine changing during this time that you were doing the move?… Read More
And were you aware of these things and trying to incorporate them. Read More
This was a large move that a lot of zoos hadn’t done, but it was a slow methodical sort of a thing. It was several months it wasn’t done overnight. And I don’t know as we learned anything except for the elephant experience, that we could’ve said to other zoos,… Read More
When we put the animals… When we took the animals down there, we put them in a quarantine area, a holding pen area, that was constructed so we could easily load them into crates from there, and then take them over to the exhibit area. And that was no problem… Read More
Some problems or everybody settled in?… Read More
How did the animals adjust to their new home?… Read More
Did you record this historically, this major move or not?… Read More
We did not record it unfortunately, but back in those days, no, there wasn’t much to record with movie cameras I guess. But no, we didn’t. Maybe some of the TV stations still have video of it. I don’t know. But it’s unfortunate that there wasn’t a recording of it. Read More
When we drove up to an overpass, they lowered their heads by themselves till we got underneath it, through it and they raised them up again. And the traffic lights weren’t a problem either. We had some taken down, but they put their head under, and the others they weren’t… Read More
And the cow went absolutely berserk. I thought she was gonna tear that crate, that semi trailer apart, thrusting back and forth. And so we just turned the calf loose finally and let her run up into the pen with her. We weren’t gonna put her in there ’cause we… Read More
But we knocked them down and put them in crates and took them the… The rhinos I remember we anesthetized them used M-99 on them and knocked them down. Put them in the crate, took them down, woke them up. That was no problem. We did learn a very, very… Read More
What were the major obstacles?… Read More
When we moved the animals from the old Crandon Park Zoo to the new zoo. We felt that giraffes were gonna be the most difficult animals to move. ‘Cause we’re gonna have to take down traffic lights and take down some wires, and somehow get them under the… I think… Read More
It must have been a massive kind of thing. Read More
How were you preparing for it?… Read More
I have no idea if Bob Yokel was surprised to be named director. I really don’t know. But also after I retired, he remained director for a year or two after that. And then the parks department director retired, they put a new director in, and the first thing he… Read More
Can you talk a little about the amount of animals you had to move?… Read More
Was Bob surprised to be named director?… Read More
It’s not gonna accomplish anything. And I wanted to stay in Miami ’cause I wanted to see this new zoo built and developed the way it should be. And I think by and large, it has been developed that way. Read More
How were you able to work with the new guy in this new position?… Read More