Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 115
And in managing this collection and working on these exhibits, were there philosophies that you were learning that would help you later on in your career?… Read More
And in managing this collection and working on these exhibits, were there philosophies that you were learning that would help you later on in your career?… Read More
Do we have the right space?… Read More
Are we able to provide the proper food sources?… Read More
Gus was very open to ideas in terms of what we needed to have in the collection but the caveat was, can we provide the proper care?… Read More
Did you have any input?… Read More
I think my involvement with collection planning at Philadelphia in that bird collection. Yeah, yeah. Read More
He was the expert about the plants in there. And to me, it was really something fascinating because you can go into all these topical exhibits you see in zoos, now they’re better today but in that time they say oh, it’s a tropical exhibit. You go in there and… Read More
Now as assistant, were you able to give Gus information or talk to him about expanding the collection?… Read More
One of the unique things about the Hummingbird Exhibit at Philadelphia Zoo was that the way the exhibit was planted. It had a wonderful collection of plants and they were plants that were obviously all tropical but the selection of plants seemed to fit the ambience much better than at… Read More
Now, speaking of publications. In 2007, you wrote about the use of tropical plants in bird exhibits at the Philadelphia Zoo. Read More
Can you talk a little about that?… Read More
The old group, shouldn’t say that, the old timers, the individuals who’d been in for a long time didn’t necessarily share information very well. I think the generation that mine and since, has been more about let’s share information, it will serve us all better. And as a result, I… Read More
Who instilled with you the of sense of you need to publish?… Read More
I guess I was taught at KU by E Raymond Hall about publishing. And I think in academia, it’s a publish or perish kind of a thing. I remember the first thing that I prepared for him in terms of a publication on black-tailed prairie dogs. He got a little… Read More
I think the projects, particularly for terms of publishing were just opportune. In other words, this is something we need to work with and you worked with it. I don’t know that I really sat down and gave a lot of thought to like, I need to work, I need… Read More
It’s what you personally wanted to do or were you told to do certain things?… Read More
I would publish and Gus would publish, we’d publish about how to breed such and such or how to manage a hummingbird collection, stuff like that. That was in spare time. A lot of things were done at home at night. Read More
Were you allowed to pick the projects that you wanted to learn about or publish?… Read More
I think my workload at Philadelphia, if I try to remember back on what was a typical day, I was the one who was responsible for checking out the bird collection every morning. I tried to visit every exhibit we had. Now, the zoo had just constructed the Elmer S… Read More
Some other passerines, tropical tanagers, stuff like that. And so, my job was I had to go in the hummingbird exhibit obviously, every morning and we had individual feeders hanging. And so, this feeder was for this hummingbird, that’s his territory. And this feeder is for this humming, that’s his… Read More