So you mitigate a risk of anesthesia by doing one instead of two or three and, and you have somebody there that’s more likely to be able to, to have a good impact on the problem at hand. And speaking of preparation, you’ve been involved with the birth of an… Read More
What would you say were the key medical considerations that you had to be concerned with and how key were these preparations, both from a medical standpoint and a management standpoint?… Read More
Well, I, I think so. So the concern is you want to, you want to make sure that the, the benefit that you are going to get from a particular procedure is worth the risk of anesthesia. And, and as I, as I mentioned before, the risk of anesthesia is… Read More
That’s something where you have the opportunity to kind of put your heads together and not necessarily vote on it, but, but to, to have input from a number of different individuals. But it’s very unlikely that there’s one single right way to approach a particular medical problem. In your… Read More
Can you explain the phrase, when you say balancing risk versus reward and how that played out in one particular case of the sedation of a large gor at Lincoln Park Zoo, that phrase risk versus reward?… Read More
You know, when you’re making the decision, do we, you know, do we put an animal under the knife to do a 10 hour brain surgery?… Read More
But as the chief veterinarian, sometimes you have to make a decision. It, it, it’s, it’s very infrequent that there’s a right way and a wrong way there. There’s lots of, you know, particularly in medicine, there’s, you know, there are lots of different approaches for some very high profile… Read More
I, I, I, I heard, and this was, this was not in the context of veterinary medicine, but I’ve heard management trainers say, if, if I have 10 people that work for me and they all have all the same opinions as me, then I got 10 people that I… Read More
Do you think zoos and aquariums have been successful in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
And in your role as a senior veterinarian, how did you deal with different opinions by different veterinarians for cases?… Read More
I, in, in some places they’ve been spectacularly successful. California condors, you know, has has been one of those and, but it’s not, you know, it’s never gonna be the primary way that we save the wild because you have to, you always have to attack the issue that caused… Read More
So I get the, I don’t do short answers very well, but the short answer is we are not carving up a piece and making a zoo out of it, but trying to find some of the places where we have, you know, where human populations, human settlements have impacted… Read More
I, I think there were, there were a couple of different issues with that. One is, particularly in Asians, but in both species of elephants, it can be challenging to house breeding males just behaviorally. And, and it was, and it’s difficult to move elephants around the way we do… Read More
Why do you think zoos did not implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
I, I don’t think, I don’t think it’s a, it’s a matter of us having confined animals to a zoo like setting, but rather populations have carved out holes in, in areas animal habitat that may range over a whole continent or on a continental scale. And, and so I… Read More
Is do you think there is still a wild out there or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into managed wild zoos?… Read More
So they’re not affiliated with a pride. And, and so the way they were seen in, in some countries in Africa is they were a nuisance. These pairs of boys didn’t have an impact on the population. They weren’t part of the genetic input, but they were moving across the… Read More
It, it does. I I think it’s all part of the issue of sustainability sustaining populations over the, over the long term. You know, we we’re challenged to have large open spaces or spaces for large breeding groups of animals, and I think one of the, one of the solutions… Read More
So with the role of conservation, what do you think is the most difficult concept for a zoo to understand and and implement regarding their relationship to conservation?… Read More
I, I think one of the challenges historically is in, in a place that we are improving is thinking back 20 years ago, it, it was easy to talk about habitat disappearing in Africa and there deforestation in, in South America, it was easy to talk about the challenges that… Read More