Now, the problem we have with a social species like a penguin, is that generally speaking, they don’t breed as single pairs as a tiger would. They can on occasion, but mostly that is not successful because they have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years systems that are mutually… Read More
We often hear that zoos should be run like a business and animals should pay their way. I have trouble thinking about a hummingbird paying its way, it’d be a very small way I suppose, and a very expensive route to go. The fact is that businesses don’t last. We’re… Read More
You certainly must operate the zoo sensibly, accountably, transparently, and you must operate it in a business like fashion, but not like a business. You are not trying to make more money for stockholders. You are trying to make wildlife survive longer and make people care about it. That’s a… Read More
But when you get to the very small ponds, you’d have to have a little more intensive work on them to keep them going because they’re very small and need help. Can you talk about that concept as it relates to animals with large populations and where they’re needed as… Read More
Don’t even think about it. It’s more than that in another way, it’s an awful lot of fun. Read More
Though some people have said, run it like a business, what are the downsides when you start to think in that direction, if any?… Read More
Creatures that are living, dying, reproducing every day. You’ve taken pieces of nature and brought it in to the heart of human populations. It’s important that you bring it into the, heart of these populations in a broader way into the human heart. If that is your vision, you have… Read More
We’re good. Ideally, a zoo director should be a naturalist at heart. He should also be a naturalist by training. That’s not always possible and it’s not enough. If you’re going to be a zoo director, you’re going to arrange for the care and the public use because it is… Read More
That puts a whole different aspect to what you’re doing. You need a vision. If you don’t have a vision of what could be done with a zoological garden, maybe you should do something else. You’re not trying to return the highest possible income to stockholders, you’re trying to return… Read More
Ideally, whoops there’s some noise. Check those windows. That was a weird thing, it never happened before. I haven’t heard any vehicles, so maybe it was just like one of those little– Okay, I guarantee– It’s quieter in the hotel room. Yeah. Read More
Okay?… Read More
Whether it’s your veterinarian, advising of some of the things that had happened in the past and are going to happen in the future unless you make certain changes. So, I guess those are all parts of it. And I’m sure there are wonderful secrets to being a good director. Read More
Could you speak a little more to that in the sense of vision, mission?… Read More
What made you a good zoo director?… Read More
If I am a good zoo director, I think it is because, I saw the zoo as part of a, process, part of an overall program in relation to the wildlife it exhibited. I did not look at it administratively as a castle as I have seen in some institutions. Read More
Now, why isn’t it happening with all of these institutions?… Read More
Don’t think I know the answer, but I suspect that finance is at the foundation. Read More
(indistinct) I don’t know. We sometimes see zoos in trouble around the world, wars and things like that, but it seems that the zoos in the United States with the exception of maybe one or two, have used resources to try and help those. is this helping zoos in trouble… Read More
Should zoos help others zoos that are in trouble?… Read More
Well, ideally they should. ideally good zoos should help poor zoos. I’m afraid that this happens very rarely. I don’t see it happening with art museums, with hospitals or with universities. Read More