There is a fascinating lesson, and one that’s easy to understand that I have conveyed taking the groups through the Bronx Zoo and found immediate comprehension and then application, application in that those I was talking to said, well, what does that mean for large populations of deer in New… Read More
What does it mean for, (clears throat) too many snow geese in some areas of Canada?… Read More
Why?… Read More
Because if compressed by poaching, by failure of protection, into a single area, they eventually destroy it. They eat it to death, they trampled it to death like people. So they have to be able to move as they did before they were compressed by human populations, agriculture and other… Read More
Would it be in, you’ve spoken to the construction of more detailed exhibits, would that be an area that would bring home more of the conservation aspect?… Read More
Some zoo exhibits have been developed now, as I think all should be eventually with conservation is the main message. They include, the life history of the animal community on exhibit as effected by human beings. It is when you talk about the effects of human beings on wild animals… Read More
I don’t think I know the answer to that question. Read More
I think zoos and education or a natural marriage. Read More
What has been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collections to their visitors?… Read More
We’ve talked about education and conservation, has education made any headway and educated the public in the difference between the wellbeing of creature and the survival of a species?… Read More
There have been a great many surveys, most of which indicate that zoos do make a difference. We specifically at the wildlife conservation society in New York’s Bronx Zoo undertook a survey to see what the new Congo exhibit had done. I was not only gratified, I was downright hornswoggled. Read More
One of her more exciting experiences was to initiate a program in China at the invitation of a Chinese Institute of Science that was working with some of our field scientist. And she did a number of non-traditional things in China some years ago, what was 15, 18 years ago,… Read More
Your responsibility goes beyond the population at the zoo, because it is part of what we now in fancy terms, call a meta population, a population that extends throughout it’s kind every place. So there’s a population of a creature in Chicago, in New York, in the Congo, in Rwanda. Read More
You must be sufficiently sensitive expert and experienced to have a pretty good idea of where it hurts. And you must understand that the hurt of cock-of-the-rock from Ecuador is quite different from the hurt of a magellanic penguin from Patagonia. It is a wonderfully rich and complicated field that… Read More
One of the remarkable things about zoos is that change is a part of their fundamental nature. That’s not surprising after all, they deal with life, in contrast to an art museum where the purpose is to exhibit the work of an artist in a rather static fashion. It’s not… Read More
So you can create life in a zoo, although you normally do not create art in an art museum. I think these fundamental differences make the zoo ever so much more interesting. But if I were the city council of a municipality, thinking about creating a zoo, I would think… Read More
Everybody knew he was Jimmy and with his vocabulary, certainly couldn’t call him Janet. So despite the fact that he laid an egg, we still called him Jimmy. And then there was a wattled crane, wonderful bird, the Hugenbeck, Lorenz hugenbeck back brought that wattled crane, one that was an… Read More
You have likened zoos and wildlife to a library whose books are decaying and authors dying, do you still feel this way or have you seen enough changes in zoos?… Read More
We talked, and this is kind of an aside question, we talked about trying to promote groups of animals as opposed to individual animals, but in your career, have there been individual animals that you have felt close to?… Read More
Inevitably, a zoo biologists gets to know a few animals too well and I have. Jimmy, was an African gray parrot who moved from the zoo because he had a bump wing and was unsuitable for exhibition, and live with me and my wife for a little over 25 years. Read More