So I went back seven more times collecting specimens and always took the director of the museum out with me. And we had a great time. But now the Peruvians have declared fossils, something that should be staying in their country, and won’t let you export them anymore. So I… Read More
Went down there, met him in Lima. And we drove no about nine, 10 hours south of Lima on the coastal desert to a place where there was a guy, a European actually. European descent living. He was married to an Indian, and of course there’s a lot of Indians… Read More
And I used a light spinning tackle, 12 pound test line, and the little sharks, and 20 pound on the big ones. And I fished, we fished all over the Bahamas and Sanibel Island all over South Florida for them. But I did that for nine years. And then I… Read More
25 of which were two to three inches, longer, bigger teeth. And from that, I spread out in the Carolinas in Mississippi, there was a big area there where there were fossil sharks, California Sharktooth Hill. And then I started going down to Peru. We had a friend of ours… Read More
And I catch 12, 15 pound carp on those things and fly them for a couple hours. And that was kind of sport to me. I didn’t care about eating them. But when we moved down to Miami, of course, I opened up a whole new world down there, and… Read More
And it wasn’t fun anymore, because there was too much regulation on it. So I gave them away, gave the collection away to University of Miami, University of Florida and (indistinct), and concentrated on sharks. Sharks had been… I started fishing for sharks 1967, I believe it was. An I… Read More
Well, as far as skeletons go, I lived in west side of Cleveland, I walked the creeks in the springtime, when the floods came along and drowned a bunches of animals and pick up the pieces of them and bring them back home, put them together. And then when I… Read More
How did you get started and why do you like it?… Read More
I can’t remember any events when I was president of the Zoo Veterinary Association that had to be dealt with. When I was president of the AAZPA, our thrust that year was really public relations and getting more publicity for the zoos. And we entered into an agreement. Oh, we… Read More
You put animals back together. Read More
Now as president of the zoo association, during your tenure as president, were there anything, any major events that occurred that you as president had to deal with, good or bad?… Read More
Yeah, oh yeah. They elected me to the presidency and it was funny. Joel Wallick was at St. Louis and I think. And boy, he was a thorn in everybody’s side. And he kept interrupting meetings and everything. Oh geez, he was a nightmare. But years after that, he came… Read More
Yeah, I think I was director of the zoo then that’s… I’m trying to remember the dates. That’s really going back. I can’t recall, but it seems like I was director of the zoo then. And I just was one of the oldest members there that hadn’t been president (chuckles). Read More
So they drafted you for the job?… Read More
You where the director of the zoo then, or?… Read More
How I became president of the Zoo Veterinary Association?… Read More
Yes. Read More
How did that come about?… Read More
Now you indicated that you were president of the American Zoo Association?… Read More
Were there zoos that seemed at the time reticent with this new government adoption of endangered species or were they all on board?… Read More