I think in a world of seven billion people, very few are likely to be remembered. But in my case, if I am remembered, I’d like to be remembered as someone who attempted to buy time for wildlife. We had talked about a little about teenagers and people that come… Read More
Have you thought about when you were director of the zoo, what’d you want the kids who came to the zoo to feel about their experience or was it the same as you wanted the adults to feel?… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
What would you like your legacy to be?… Read More
What in the world? I can’t think of an answer to that. Read More
Where do I start?… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve been so devoted to, sort of many years of your life?… Read More
Strictly conservation?… Read More
I think that zoos have to become primarily conservation organizations and I think they have to become more thoroughly committed to sustaining viable wildlife populations, both in their zoos and outside of the zoos. Read More
What (indistinct) responsibility does this bring to zoos?… Read More
Today, as was not the case, perhaps when I was born, zoos have become man’s primary contact with biological diversity. The vast majority of people will never see any great number of wild animals except in the zoo. That gives the zoo an enormous educational opportunity, an enormous window of… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquariums staying viable, well you are, and pertinent and the next 25 years and what direction will help them stay relevant?… Read More
It’s still true today?… Read More
Do we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservation, Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall come to mind, do we need those type of people and are they around?… Read More
Well, do we need more charismatic heroes like Jacques Cousteau, still with us, fortunately Jane Goodall. And I think we do and I think we have a good many. I think of Iain Douglas-Hamilton the wonderful elephant conservationist whom I know well. I think of George Schaller, my colleague for… Read More
You had alluded about euthanasia of animals, sometimes smaller ones easier to do than larger ones, does this potential of euthanization of endangered species because of the things you’ve talked about, surplus genetic issues, et cetera, does it still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
When we manage animal populations, whether they be cockroaches or elephants, we deal with the rigidities of demography of sex, there only two. And, we can have enormous problems with the birth of too many males or too many females of a species. If this is a cockroach, the answer… Read More
And beyond the simple specialization, I feel very strongly that the only way many animal populations are going to persist is if they are interactive. In other words, if we have a park that is, has reticulated giraffes, Samburu, it may get to a point, it will get to a… Read More
If the field biologists knows his or her stuff and the zoo biologists manager knows the same, there should be no problem. There should be full understanding. Full understanding is very uncommon in the human species so it may take a while. Case in point might be the black-footed ferret… Read More
There are so many aesthetic details though that are overlooked in zoos and the people who commit them should have some additional training. You’ve said one of your papers that the next stage of wildlife conservation will be one of care hence a personal responsibility. Read More