I think the biggest difference is what we’ve, that the skill set that a zoo director needs today is a greater ability to deal with non-zoo, non-animal people. I think animal people, as long as a zoo director familiarizes himself as well as he can with the available information about… Read More
What kind of small or a medium-sized municipal zoo today do to be involved in wildlife conservation nationally or internationally?… Read More
All right. What skill set does a zoo director need today as compared to when you started?… Read More
The zoo was an, it operated very heavily on improvise. There was a sign in the director’s office, every day we have to accomplish more and more with less and less, I can recall that. So he said, now here’s one way we achieve that, come out. And he had… Read More
And we said, “Well, what are these small animals?” He said, rats, he said that’s our rat control, and we also use squirrels, to shoot squirrels. But primarily he’s on duty in the evening with a spotlight, rat control. Works, straight to the leopards. Okay. Read More
And this cobra which had been selected as a relatively quiet animal to begin with, as soon as it begins to climb over the guardrail or climb over the wall, he taps it on the nose with the bamboo pole and it withdraws. And when it repeats that, he taps… Read More
We’ve got lots of king cobras on the ground, so one more gets loose, nobody ever knows. Three criteria that Americans zoos cannot achieve to (laughing). Okay. All right, that will not be an exhibit that will be in our normal US zoos. Don’t put that on the list of… Read More
And finally, we got around to asking that question. (indistinct) said, “Well, here’s the procedure. First of all, we get cobras. First we have a relatively large number of cobras available. There’s a good population here in Burma.” So we select the more lethargic, the more quiet examples, specimens that… Read More
It’s comfortable, it’s in the shade. We feed it in there, we make it like that little box. Then we open that little box very carefully and the cobra comes out. We do this before the visitors come in the morning. And this young man, a 10-year old boy is… Read More
He escorted us through customs, no suitcases were opened and a lot of smiles, right?… Read More
Can you kind of give us a capsule version of that?… Read More
The most remarkable thing that we wanted to, Bernard Harrison and I went up to the zoo in Rangoon and Burma in the mid ’70s. And the purpose of that trip was for him, particularly, because I knew it wouldn’t do our zoo any good, ’cause we couldn’t keep king… Read More
Things that aren’t on the approved list, even the same genomes, separate species, sometimes have to go through a long laborious permitting process, unnecessary delays for the zoo. But it’s way better to have it than to not have it. Quick exhibit question. I know you’ve seen a lot of… Read More
In the what?… Read More
On that, we saw 50,000 of them in Maui. But you know, what’s knocking them now is their population is gone down to, I’d say less than, in our yard, less than 5%. We used to get as many as say 100 in our yard. They were a lot, and… Read More
I would strongly feel like your common snapper would be an undesirable resident because he’d feel, in terms of aquaculture, they’d, and toads from what I’ve read, but the red-eared and the tortoises are freely permitted. Read More
Somebody didn’t think about it in the cane toad, did they?… Read More
Well, the key thing is that, the law is a good one to… Like so many laws, the concept is wise. The administration of it is sometimes, since it’s done by people, and often with people that don’t understand the background and the purpose, there are gaps. Initially are working… Read More
One of them was, do you accept the laws requiring the banning, such as the snake ban create a serious limitation on exhibiting these creatures?… Read More
How does one work around that issue?… Read More