Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 381
But, you know, you could come across, do you think these animals are comfortable living in this small concrete bathtub?… Read More
But, you know, you could come across, do you think these animals are comfortable living in this small concrete bathtub?… Read More
So do you feel that curators and professional staff need more training to interact with animal rights groups?… Read More
If you have, you know, Sparky the favorite beagle, you know, everybody’s, oh, I wanna see Sparky. Where’s Sparky? You know, if you see Shamu, you wanna go to the Shamu and sit in their first five rows. So you get splaShedd by Shamu and you can talk about it. Read More
’cause they’re hard to find. But after a while we said, you know what?… Read More
We, we need to find other locations. We can’t keep going back to the same place. And so indeed that’s what we did. So through scuba diving, you know, obviously you can see the animals and you realize here’s a good place, here’s a good place. So there is concern… Read More
So places like The Bahamas, which was a common collecting place for us, we always have to report to the Bahamian government in getting a permit from them, how many animals we intend to collect and where we intend to collect them. And the C Aquarium for years has kept… Read More
The big one are the marine mammals, just because they’re the big, you know, everybody loves the marine mammals, the whales, the dolphins. I mean, look at our gift shop sales. When you’re selling plush animals, it’s always a little beluga, a seal, a sea otter. I always say, when… Read More
And that’s how the sea otters actually came to us. We were on a huge aircraft. It was just our staff and four sea otters, which was, to this day, I think, kind of funny. But it was very good for us because I don’t know that that one even… Read More
But there were times too where they had a dead, a deadhead flight where they’re going back to a certain airport empty anyway, so why don’t we put the whales on?… Read More
Would you say animal rights activists are more interested in marine mammals or, and the otters and the whales and so forth?… Read More
Or are they also interested in the fishes?… Read More
It was that level of paranoia because of these guys’ presence. So they did a good job as far as voicing their opinion, if you will, but they didn’t stop our activities. And ultimately when you got the animals back, also you had to do it under high security in… Read More
So it was, it was heavily guarded. There was times, I remember we would move an animal during the evening hours when people might not be expecting it. And often it was more a matter of logistics, it was better. Number one, it’s cooler, which the marine mammals needed cooler… Read More
And I thought, what’s going on?… Read More
Well, he was waiting for backup. And when they arrived he said, okay, separate. Give ’em room, let ’em drive out. And as we slowly crept through the crowd, them still banging on the windows. I remember one individual leaping on the hood and flipping us off right through the… Read More
I remember when I got out, I’m looking around, there’s anybody with, I’m walking through the terminal, I’m like, is there anybody still following me?… Read More
I was looking out the back, are we being trailed?… Read More
And I’m saying to my assistant, the driver, I said, where are the cops?… Read More
You know where we need some help here. Finally one police officer shows up. And I thought, okay. And he really didn’t do anything. Read More
The another sidelight of this is that when it was, I think we’d had the animals two weeks. I’m not a marine mammal trainer, so I, I said to the assistant curator, I said, you know, I’m gonna head back to Chicago. You’ve got a staff here that can care… Read More