Yeah, and bats too. I loved bats when I was a kid, and we knew an area where there was a big tunnel under the road that big brown bats used to hibernate in the winter time. So I would go down there and pull a couple off the wall… Read More
Were you a kid who brought snakes home?… Read More
How’d you get that interest?… Read More
People just brought them in to me. It was usually a bird with a broken wing or something like that. And quite often the animals that we got were not salvageable. They just were so far gone that they didn’t survive. But it was interesting anyway, taking care of these… Read More
And when you said you were doing animals or taking care of them in the neighborhood, were you collecting animals when they were sick or people were bringing them to you?… Read More
Oh, I was born February 28th, 1935. Read More
And so I went down and interviewed him and quite by coincidence, he was also the part-time vet at the Cleveland Zoo. And so after I interviewed him I thought that’s pretty neat. I wrote my theme. I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I went back and volunteered… Read More
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Okay, I’m Dr. Gordon Hubblle. I was born and raised in the west side of Cleveland suburbs, born in Lakewood, raised in Fairview Park. And I went to college at Ohio State studied veterinary medicine. Actually I got my interest in wild animals I guess, back in junior high school. Read More
That’s an interesting concept for animals and captivity, for feeding them and things like that. Okay, thank you on that, I think that’ll be that, I think we got enough of that. But I like to, if you’re still rolling, I like to had one more word. Go ahead, and… Read More
Well, the best way to learn how to take care of elephants is to work with an elephant man who’s had experience, and we had an old man here, an old trainer, an old, he was an old man, and he’d had some injuries too from elephants, and his name… Read More
We’re on. Oh, great. Read More
We’re are having bit here, that when you’ve been around a lot of zoo animals, but you’ve been around elephants a lot in your career as a zoo director, if you had to tell me a young novice starting out working, wanting to work with elephants, what advice could you… Read More
Are we on?… Read More
You wanna talk about how they work at trainer in India?… Read More
Well, that’d be a nice thing, sure, absolutely. I think first thing I’d like to talk about is that. Read More
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It’s was in the early mornings and at night, though sometimes they would let the young cats out, not the tiny babies but the others for exercise. Well, I’d here, that’s a very good policy, that’s not too tough a job too. Yeah, I’ll tell you something else that Lyman… Read More
He says, no. And so, anyhow, he worked out something on that, and he’s made a tremendous success, I think he was the best possible choice for this, and I think everybody would agree because Les has done great things for this zoo. Well, I wanna thank you for your… Read More
Well, that my concept on that, let’s go back to that just for a minute, if you got any more time. We got time. My concept was that, there is no place in the country where you can learn to be a zoo man except in a zoo, and I… Read More