Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 516
Can you tell me the briefly some of the stories about how things went with like the, for example, one, the Largo Wildlife Preserve?… Read More
Can you tell me the briefly some of the stories about how things went with like the, for example, one, the Largo Wildlife Preserve?… Read More
Oh, sure, yeah. Yeah. In life I think you have to try things. You have to work at it, you have to stick at. It’s not very easy to come up with innovative new situations in the world. Frankly, I was known primarily for my experience with Wild Kingdom. And… Read More
Is that part of the Giggling Gorilla Productions?… Read More
No, but I know him very well. Read More
What is Giggling Gorilla Productions?… Read More
What were you up against?… Read More
Well, you’re really first of all– (indistinct) Well, no, you have to have some space. If you do a proper wildlife park that’s got combines adventure with education. Oh, by the way, after the lions follow you and get a food reward, a bear come out of a tree over… Read More
And also, how do you raise the money within the limits of the city or the foundations that you have access to?… Read More
Right now I’ve had to go there some big plantations around Albany, Georgia, and I have set the stage so that they’re willing to donate, but unless I have the control, personally, if I tell them I wanna raise money for, let’s say one of my mobile exercise tunnels for… Read More
Well, I never have had the never been in the catbird seat. The only way I can be in the catbird seat is to raise the money myself to build something there. And I did that with a oddly enough with a Birds of Prey park, one of the first… Read More
But at the one in Albany, Georgia that I built, I’ve got a holding area. It’s up on stilts with a couple of a nighttime holding area and also preparation of food. But then I have another cabin on top of that. And that’s where the eagle flies out of… Read More
I have another flight cage that’s 150 feet long for bald eagles. And you can see them come right down to you ’cause I have a bleacher inside of the flight cage. People could sit there and see a bald eagle come down and grab a fish out of the… Read More
“This looks like a safari in Africa you know.” Well, the people don’t know it, but as you leave, the lions have become accustomed to jumping up and following you, running after you, because they know they’re gonna get a food reward 50 yards down the trail. But you gotta… Read More
And you can show that animal with a natural background and give the animal the right to have space and green grass, and a place to live in like the one that came from. Read More
Was this concept that (indistinct) that you’ve talked about enabled?… Read More
Did you do it?… Read More
And also (chuckles) sometimes they’re off where you can’t even see them when he goes through a through, and it’s also dangerous. You can’t have people open a window in a car. It happened at quite a few different parks. But in my experience, I don’t have a paved roads,… Read More
And you drive up and people in the mobile cage say, “Hey, is this like it is in Africa?… Read More
I learned of all places, I learned on the Johnny Carson Show. I probably knew this before that, but the key to knowledge is often being put into a unpredictable situation where there is suspense. Unpredictability, any good book, any good Hollywood movie, once you get into an unpredictable story,… Read More
And they would say, what was that animal you had called a binturong that was from the ecosystem in Indonesia?… Read More