Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 420
Can you gimme your thoughts on new trends in aquariums in the last quarter of a century?… Read More
Can you gimme your thoughts on new trends in aquariums in the last quarter of a century?… Read More
They’re, eh, two to three inches long and they live in little shallow stream areas. They need a current going across them. So you could put ’em in a 400 gallon aquarium, but they didn’t have the stimulation of that water flowing past them. They, they actually orient up into… Read More
And I think, you know, it’s, it’s an interesting challenge with zoos for instance, if you get larger animals and you have a, a much greater yard or you know, three dimensional aspects to it. We have three dimensional aspects to an aquarium, but it’s just not as large. But… Read More
Yeah, the, to go back to the, the early days, and I experienced that I was probably coming in on the end of the early days, but it was laughingly called the Stacked Rock exhibit, where you literally would take a certain type of rock and try to create some… Read More
What was your approach to exhibit design and and how did you develop that approach?… Read More
But a challenge is in some cases not developing an overabundance of that species to the point that, well, what do we do with them now?… Read More
So it’s, it’s, it’s an important component of, I think today’s zoo aquarium world. You, you talked about exhibits at the She aquarium. Read More
Africa has a tremendous diversity of sick lids. Matter of fact, they’re called the, the aquatic version of Darwin’s finches type of thing in their diversification to fill various niches in Lake Victoria. We’ve had great success in breeding all kinds of cyclics. The problem is the the lake is… Read More
That’s all ultimately my biggest concern. We were years ago, and I think the zoo aquarium community, a ZA is still propagating portilla snails, tiny snail found in South Pacific islands. One island specifically that is that natural population’s been all but decimated by an introduced larger snail. The largest… Read More
So I would say yes, you know, breeding, if nothing else is a sign of success in your husbandry program, you know, the animals are doing well enough that they’re reproducing. Read More
Our efforts in education, were all over the board as is in azu or aquarium. And matter of fact, it’s, it’s, it’s got its own section in the accreditation inspection about your educational efforts and the type of programs you have. I think it’s incumbent upon us that if we… Read More
Great question. To answer the second part, is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More
Yeah, you talked about breeding, but can any aquarium animals, can they be reintroduced in, in the wild and is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More
Gosh, to me it’s everything. Education of our public is why we exist. Certainly you can say, well, you know, know she aquarium is showing a tremendous diversity of animals. You know, telling people about where they came from and why we have them. Sometimes, you know, this is part… Read More
What role is it playing?… Read More
You know, nowadays I, I don’t know maybe ’cause I focus on it more than some people, but the environment is just under attack and it’s like, what will it take to drive people to activism maybe, or concern or voting in a certain way?… Read More
It’s more that they’re having fun. So when animals perform for us, we can get those behaviors on cue. We can ask for it through a various, they call SD, a signal that tells the animal, we want you to do this behavior, then come back and I’ll give you… Read More
You know, why are they here and why does Shedd aquarium use them to illustrate, you know, challenges in the wild, for instance. So Why would you say education’s important in aquariums?… Read More
And it always had people swamping them with, they wanted to know things about the dolphins. So I think that yes, we are successful in getting the messages across. We certainly present them in multiple formats, but it’s, you know, it’s what the, what is the audience there for, you… Read More
Yeah, and why We, we make a major effort to include messages about conservation, education, the animal’s, natural history, you know, their habitat, what they eat in the wild. It’s all part of the message. The the reality is, and it always bothers me, but the reality is the people… Read More