Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 321
What were the things that frustrated you on the job as director?… Read More
What were the things that frustrated you on the job as director?… Read More
It was a good PR move. Jerry Coburn, our PR guy. Frazier was about a 26 year old lion, came out of a Mexican circus, had very few teeth. Jerry Corbin and I talked about it, Jerry said, “He’s an old animal and females are bringing him food.” And he… Read More
Could you tell me what was his impact on the population and what was his impact on Lion Country?… Read More
Yeah, there would be giraffe in there, white rhino, buffalo, wild dogs, cheetahs, hyenas. Now, you had a lion named Frazier. Frazier’s the Sensuous Lion. Read More
Did you have drive throughs for giraffe?… Read More
Hippo, rhino. You had chimps, that’s one. Chimps. But these were all drive throughs in those areas. Yeah, you drove through those areas. We had islands with animals on it that couldn’t swim. Read More
What did you have at Lion Country?… Read More
God, there’s so many megavertebrates from Africa. Read More
So what kind of animals are the best in an African exhibit, forgetting the lions that are not carnivores?… Read More
Well, first you’ve gotta have predators, you gotta have lions, if you open it. Then you’ve got to watch your sex ratios to make sure that somebody’s gotta be dominant or you’re gonna have some problems. The conflict often brings on peace because once a conflict is complete, then somebody’s… Read More
What advice would you give me about managing that open air space, important things?… Read More
So if I was a young zoo guy and I was putting together an open air African exhibit, what animals would you say I should have?… Read More
He got pretty old. Then you hired Don Dooley, the vet worked for you, Don Dooley. Don Dooley later became one of our investors in Gulf Breeze Zoo. Read More
Then didn’t he eventually retire?… Read More
Oh, yeah, had a full-time vet. But it’s a whole different ballgame because you’re trying to sneak around and get a dart into an animal. After you do that one time, they get savvy about it. So you gotta be really sneaky. You know what I remember, the first vet… Read More
Did you have a full-time vet or part-time vet?… Read More
Was it challenging in this open air setting of handling the animals, that is the medical treatment or transferring them from one place to another?… Read More
We hired a bunch of young men that were musicians and they would create music around in the round oval, things like that. Read More
They would get concerned about temperatures getting low, and we’d have to convince them that we needed a little more protection for heat, and I had to walk him around with things like that. But he wasn’t an animal man, he was a money man, which is fine, we can’t… Read More
Or did they talk to you all the time about what was going on?… Read More