You had alluded about euthanasia of animals, sometimes smaller ones easier to do than larger ones, does this potential of euthanization of endangered species because of the things you’ve talked about, surplus genetic issues, et cetera, does it still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
When we manage animal populations, whether they be cockroaches or elephants, we deal with the rigidities of demography of sex, there only two. And, we can have enormous problems with the birth of too many males or too many females of a species. If this is a cockroach, the answer… Read More
And beyond the simple specialization, I feel very strongly that the only way many animal populations are going to persist is if they are interactive. In other words, if we have a park that is, has reticulated giraffes, Samburu, it may get to a point, it will get to a… Read More
If the field biologists knows his or her stuff and the zoo biologists manager knows the same, there should be no problem. There should be full understanding. Full understanding is very uncommon in the human species so it may take a while. Case in point might be the black-footed ferret… Read More
There are so many aesthetic details though that are overlooked in zoos and the people who commit them should have some additional training. You’ve said one of your papers that the next stage of wildlife conservation will be one of care hence a personal responsibility. Read More
Care by home, governments, zoos, aquariums, non-governmental organizations, can they all agree?… Read More
I’m certain they can’t and I’m certain they’ll have to. I think all of the, all of those who have the privilege of being responsible for an animal population are going to have to find ways to work together, taking advantage of their particular skills. There is no way for… Read More
Why do you do that and where are they?… Read More
Yes, there are but I think there are major zoo opportunities, opportunities to see great zoos that I haven’t had a chance to do recently because I haven’t traveled much to zoos in the last few years. A collection that I think very, very highly of is the WildLife trust… Read More
Well, they’re four or five actually. The thing I did that I suppose I am proudest of, though pride is a very dangerous emotion, is the creation of the International Conservation Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, which took some years to get underway and we formally got it going… Read More
Now you’d mentioned a couple of zoo exhibits in Europe, are there zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
I think there were too many other challenges to the society at that time, we were doing too much else. And that was just one too many. Read More
What’s your proudest accomplishments?… Read More
Oh yes. I tried to raise the money. I was not very successful. Read More
I would like– ‘Cause it was a bullfrog?… Read More
And having told the bullfrog’s story, I wanted to have the gall to say that every animal has its own story and we’re gonna show them to you. So there were many things I wanted to do. I wanted to do tree topics, and an incidentally, the Philadelphia Zoo is… Read More
Well you indicated the bullfrog and that has been very, I feel important paper that you have done that has been read by many zoo people, and the question is absolutely, did you really wanna build it?… Read More
Oh yes, but– Colonial animals are a very special opportunity for zoos and rarely exhibited as colonies. Imagine a big colony of Scarlet Ibises there used to be a colony of Scarlet Ibises, which was run by the Disney people down in Orlando. It was absolutely fabulous. It was out… Read More
People don’t know that they know each other until they’ve watch them. They can recognize the kinds of things that Konrad Lorenz taught us many years ago when he wrote “King Solomon’s Ring”. When he discovered that geese recognize each other by their faces, he played a dirty trick on… Read More
That is a very easy question to answer. I’d have done everything differently. I’ve learned so much over the years. My fellow staff members have been so tolerant of me. My trustees have been so helpful. All the animals I’ve known have been so wonderfully patient that I’ve learned a… Read More