Interview 11040 – Caption Index: 291
It seems, to me, complicated to move it rather than an elephant, but that’s what I know. Read More
It seems, to me, complicated to move it rather than an elephant, but that’s what I know. Read More
Was it getting better as you were understanding things more or did techniques essentially stay the same?… Read More
No, I think it all evolved, equipment evolved. Dr. Jim McBain, who I worked with for many, many years, was our chief veterinarian. And he always realized that some of the respiration rates on some of the cetaceans seemed to be a little bit higher when we were flying. And… Read More
I don’t think they were paying attention to the public and the millennials that were coming of age. And the people that were coming to zoos and aquariums love zoos and aquarium. But there were some people that were hearing messages and suddenly saying, “Well, we maybe we don’t wanna… Read More
And it was silent. but it was getting more vocal. And it was a small percentage, but it was effecting people, especially today with the social media blogs and the way they can do it. So I saw changes in our company in terms of our ability to… I always… Read More
And how we would do that?… Read More
And inspire people to say, “I wanna help flamingos in the wild. I wanna help penguins in the wild. How do we connect the dots to a guest who sees a penguin and says, “I wanna help. How do we do that?” That’s the biggest challenge ever. Part of this… Read More
What kind of evolution did you see occurring?… Read More
I saw an evolution in a lot of different areas. I saw an evolution in terms of our ability to do more conservation and more research and more education. I saw the ability of the animal activist extremists to start creating a picture of doom and gloom, and we do… Read More
We’re part of public education. We’re part of conservation.” And that movement was getting stronger and stronger, you know, because it was started with the farm animals and animals in entertainment and animals in Hollywood. And it was drifting towards zoos and aquariums, especially on dolphins and whales. And a… Read More
Are you really traveling a lot during this time as directors of zoological operations?… Read More
I’m traveling all the time as zoological director, to all of the parks. We have meetings. We have a yearly meeting where all our zoo professionals come together, and we have meetings with our educators and a meeting with our veterinarians and I travel around the world to different facilities. Read More
What type of evolution did the parks take?… Read More
‘Cause you started a while back, and now it’s 2008 and you’re director of zoo operations. Read More
They didn’t care about the animals or?… Read More
Well, the InBev folks, their interests were not in the animals of the parks. They were a beer company. We’d have meetings with them and chat with them, and they’d go, “That’s nice. Stick to the budget. Do well, and we’ll see what happens in the future.” So you could… Read More
And everything worked out just fine until, finally, as most equity banking companies do, they do an IPO and you go public again. And that’s when we ended up with public people buying stock and people coming on the board. And then it got a lot more complicated. Read More
And we became a private company. Read More
Can you give me an example, just ’cause you said it, of not very much fun?… Read More
It seems like a big deal. And I think the aquarium community has embraced this. In fact, the marine mammal, excuse me, the marine fish tag that was just held in Indianapolis two weeks ago or three weeks ago, they praised the Rising Tide program. And they’re all involved, everybody’s… Read More