Well, as far as Endangered Species Act, we had as a zoo profession had been pushing it for so long that I think it was a relief that something was finally done. It’s just that when we realized what had been done, we were all horrified, ’cause here the government… Read More
Now there’s a lot of women there in the Zoo Veterinary Association. Read More
Well, one of the major events was the passage of the Endangered Species Act, because that made it imperative that we breed animals. And that was an event that certainly prompted a whole different philosophy in managing animals in zoos. We had the various humane societies, and animal protective groups… Read More
Yeah, I contacted other vets when I had a problem. Len Goss was one, (indistinct) was another one. Charlie Schroeder at San Diego Zoo. Chuck (indistinct) at St. Louis Zoo was another one. So yeah, I had vets that were experienced and I trusted, I always called if I had… Read More
Major events that affected animal care?… Read More
Were there veterinarians who you leaned on?… Read More
When we formed the Zoo Veterinary Association, we kept this process of distributing case reports among the members. But after a few years, we realized that we had to do a journal, develop a journal. And we developed this quarterly journal of case reports. I can’t remember exactly how all… Read More
You were obviously one of the first original members of it and it evolved. Read More
How did information start to evolve with vets sharing it?… Read More
Ultimately as time progressed, how did the Zoo Veterinary Association kind of form?… Read More
The light bulb was unscrewed and the orangutan promptly ate the bulb. Chewed it up and swallowed it. So we loaded him up with bread and all kinds of grains in bulk and gave him oil for a while until he passed all the pieces of glass. And he seemed… Read More
We had a quarantine area that we built for big cats and gorillas. And we told the engineer we wanted to have lights in the area but there had to be outside the holding area, ’cause we didn’t want the animals getting into them. Well they designed it with what… Read More
Well, when we built the new zoo, of course, we were looking out for the welfare of the animals. And not only did we build a new animal hospital with tables that would hold even an elephant and recline or stand him up on the side. But we had huge… Read More
So we made it as easy and as safe as possible to handle the animals if we had to. We also trained the animals to react to certain things. Feed them in one area, and then if we had to we could put a crate in that area and feed… Read More
Here you were building a very brand new zoo as a veterinarian were you thinking about some of these things?… Read More
During this time, was animal care preventive medicine changing during this time that you were doing the move?… Read More
And were you aware of these things and trying to incorporate them. Read More
This was a large move that a lot of zoos hadn’t done, but it was a slow methodical sort of a thing. It was several months it wasn’t done overnight. And I don’t know as we learned anything except for the elephant experience, that we could’ve said to other zoos,… Read More
When we put the animals… When we took the animals down there, we put them in a quarantine area, a holding pen area, that was constructed so we could easily load them into crates from there, and then take them over to the exhibit area. And that was no problem… Read More
Some problems or everybody settled in?… Read More