There is actually however, a great many people who fancy themselves as curators in waiting. And the zoo responsibility is to establish more training programs and a good many curators came out of programs in New York I’m happy to say, and became directors or became curators in other places… Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes at the national level?… Read More
Why would a curator want to take on what is often recognized as such an onerous responsibility?… Read More
For a zoo to obtain trained curators nowadays is not an easy thing. Read More
Where is the curator to be trained?… Read More
How should curators be trained today?… Read More
What is expected of a new age or the new curator?… Read More
What’s the problem?… Read More
Is there a problem?… Read More
Unfortunately, it’s mostly gone. Just imagine, 90% of all the vertebrates are either human or domestic animals today. Imagine how little wildlife is left. Since 1970, the IUCN tells us we’ve lost 30% of the animal populations, not species, of the actual numbers of animals, just since 1970, think of… Read More
Today, there are about 400. 200 in zoos and other breeding establishments and 200 again in nature. That’s what can happen and that is what is going to have to happen with many species. Talk about the people who are helping to run a zoo and sometimes a complaint from… Read More
Large well spaces. People who have a knee-jerk reaction toward any management or confinement of wild animals, have to come to some sort of understanding, some reality. I am often taken aback when I read that such and such a animal welfare organization thinks that all of zoos animals should… Read More
Where is this nature?… Read More
And this is the kind of problem we’re dealing with in dealing with anti zoo people. How can you be anti zoo when you can see that in the next few years, fewer and fewer animals will exist without intensive management. That we’re moving into a world of, many parks… Read More
Increasingly zoo management is having to be applied to animals in nature. We’re going to have to manage them ever more. I don’t know why I’m losing my voice here. Read More
Going to have to manage them– Would you like some water?… Read More
They must manage their animals very carefully. They cannot become facilities that are sustaining nothing but animals that are beyond their breeding age. That’s a tough problem to discuss with people who are concerned with humane issues, and every zoo person is so concerned. But again, looking at my experience,… Read More
How can you make intelligent decisions in a democracy if you can’t understand that two plus two makes four?… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these type of people that don’t have the same mindset?… Read More
My personal experience in dealing with animal rights, people who are anti zoo, and of course not all animal rights people are anti zoo, but my experience has been that one must attempt to involve them, to educate them. We’re dealing with some very, very difficult questions. If, for example,… Read More