You know, there’s little things, but as far as me as a person, I probably should have been a little bit more diplomatic. Not sacrifice my principles, but I was pretty outspoken. I could see some of the people that had to manage Rick Bargi had their hands full. ’cause… Read More
Now if you could go back in time, what, if anything, as a zoo director, would you have done differently?… Read More
You know, you can, you can, you can focus on, well, yeah, well this, and this is, I I, I don’t wanna be told to do this. I don’t want to. Hey, that’s part of the game guys. You can play that. These are recommendations sometimes too. They’re not like,… Read More
And ZAA is the same way. You know, they have some very good owners in there. And there are a few institutions that are, are members of both, but very few. But it’s a shame. It should be, to me it should be one organization. ’cause it’s, it’s confusing. ’cause… Read More
I think this should, ideally it should be one organization. And, and, but I just, I don’t see that happening. ’cause it got it, it it, it started because this, a ZA was such an exclusive club and it was more expensive than people wanted. And the accreditations facility, the… Read More
Hey, there’s always a little bit of risk. But when you have a one-to-one ratio, or you have a, if you’ve got, if your animal care staff has plenty of time to work with the, the more the animal does something, the more reliable and the more dependable it is,… Read More
You know, or, or is it too risky, this or that?… Read More
You don’t wanna feed the draft too much. Read More
He says, you bring ’em to your house, you got ’em captured there, and then you can ask ’em for money. All I can do is send out notices and mailers and tell ’em how dire the situation is. And, and, and great videos and stuff. I mean, you know,… Read More
’cause they’re, they’re organizations. They have so much power. Yeah, well, I, I, I did associate myself a lot with some of the NGOs, non-government institutions, especially with Conservation International with, ’cause Russ Meyer was there, a friend of mine. And then of course, you know, the, the, the Waza… Read More
Are there certain issues that you’d like to see these national or international organizations be addressing now?… Read More
But, but if you have to wait, teenagers, hey, you know, what do I know about teenagers?… Read More
I never, I was one, but I was one back in the, in the sixties. So I, I, I don’t, if I had all the distractions and all the temptations that they have now, I don’t know if I’d be sitting here today. Mark. I mean, that, that’s, that’s scary. Read More
You know, even if they’re a little intimidated by this big giraffe, you know, they, they see other people doing it. Read More
Walt was fascinated because I think Roy said, you know, nature is the greatest storyteller in the world that he used to Tell me Now, again, one of the hardest, it appears to make the connection is with kids in teenagers. Read More
So how do you think Zoo could improve that connection to height, to heighten the, the awareness about the natural world and the caring?… Read More
Well, if you wait till they’re a teenager, you, you’re probably going to have a challenge. I think. I think you gotta start earlier because once, if, if they haven’t been exposed to it and they’re a teenager, there’s, there’s so much competition out there. There’s still the, there’s still… Read More
That animals were gonna die and that it was going to be explained or discussed?… Read More
Well, as long as they didn’t die from being run over by a, a vehicle, which, which happened at the beginning with a, with a crown crane. I, I think, but if, if you don’t be afraid of talking about that animal and the if and, and telling the challenges… Read More
But that, I think that, that, that was a challenge for Disney. But they also knew that the inter the history of the company, there were a lot of animal movies. True Life Adventures was, of course. And, and Roy Disney was sitting next to me and a lot of… Read More