I think as Americans have more time for leisure and to be more critical in the fact that they’re getting away from the agricultural background than they don’t have nearly the practical utilitarian approach to animals that most Americans did 50 years ago, that they’re going to become more and… Read More
In your opinion, what is your take on, you’ve talked a little about it, on the insurgents of the anti-captivity animal rights activism, which has gained a mainstream status in our society now?… Read More
What’s kind of your take on it?… Read More
I wouldn’t have done it in my zoo because I wouldn’t have wanted to face the wrath of the public. Does that mean they were wrong? No. They made the conscious decision. They would do it. It was the same way that it would’ve happened in nature. If the animal… Read More
And would I have done it?… Read More
No, because the goer naturally breed well, and they don’t have to. Will they do more of the insemination work with Sumatran rhinos. If we have a viable male and a female, that’s probably the best way to go. Unfortunately, right now we don’t have that situation. So yeah, they’re… Read More
And it’s a problem holding all of the excess males. The other side of the coin, we run into an ethical thing and some zoos have gotten into difficulties with it by recognize it as a management tool. And that is if you have too many male babies born and… Read More
Have they done more with the Gour?… Read More
Reproductive physiology is one of the places where zoos have made major changes and learned a lot more. There are assisted reproductive techniques that we are using, as you’ve mentioned, artificial insemination, embryo transfer that we’re utilizing fairly regularly. The only Sumatran rhinos ever born in North America are due… Read More
So that’s one example. The first Gour, which is one of the world’s largest cattle, that was born with embryo transfer was worked done at the Bronx Zoo. And they took embryos from goer and put them into a Holstein cow and produced a goer that way. So all of… Read More
If you could comment on any of these AI, ET, siemens sexing or how important these may be?… Read More
And we’ve now starting to see that we’re getting resistance to the use of a lot of these antibiotics. So some of the organisms are coming resistant to ’em. So we have to always be changing, but we seem to be always able to come up with a new treatment,… Read More
Do you see a realistic role in assisted reproductive techniques in maintaining the endangered species?… Read More
I think the prevalence of trying to prevent disease as opposed to treating it after it’s obviously present have been very important to us. And it’s been a continuum that’s been growing, we would much rather spend time on doing lab work on blood or on feces to find out… Read More
Were there some that stand out to you as really important changes, maybe it’s in diagnosis or treatment or some aspect, what changes in that vein have you seen. Read More
Changes in veterinary medicine have been both in diagnosis and treatment and preventive medicine?… Read More
I would like to see zoos, I think become more regionally-oriented with specialties. In other words, zoos that can do good with certain groups of animals or types of animals or species would concentrate on working with those species and not try and have-all do-all type zoo. And that might… Read More
How would you describe zoos now?… Read More
In the future, what would you like to see them become?… Read More
And I think that has sort of slipped over into thinking that, well, we don’t need to keep animals in captivity, or we don’t need to control animals. Read More