Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 648
What really is conservation all about?… Read More
What really is conservation all about?… Read More
I’ll give you a good example. I gotta cut away from that for a second. Read More
Now, the fact is, conservation comes from the days of the, what do you call it?… Read More
When the soil was being blown away out of the Midwest. It was soil conservation that’s how it started during the big, you know– (indistinct) Pardon. The dust bowl. Yeah, the dust bowl. That’s where soil conservation came from. Sorry. (laughs) So I’ll say it again. Read More
The word conservation from the days of the dust bowl, when we were losing the soil, and we’ve hung on to that term and I’ll tell you why?… Read More
Bureaucratically, it’s safe. Nobody’s gonna be against you if you talk about conservation. But I don’t think it’s a communication term. It doesn’t tell the public, the person you’re talking to. Read More
He said, “Jim, just to remember, “the one thing you need to do is learn English, “vocab study and speech.” That’s the best advice I ever got, because I was not necessarily focused on speech, but I learned not just because he told me, but I learned through experience that… Read More
Do you think that zoos and aquariums are doing enough to support in situ conservation?… Read More
Boy! Now you’ve gotten me really in a tough spot. It all comes back to communication again, because the word conservation is not a communication term. So when you use the word conservation, let me say a couple of things about that. They shouldn’t use the word conservation loosely ’cause… Read More
And then it’s a successful zoological park. Read More
What was the most important piece of advice that you received that’s kind of stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Advice on what basis personally or?… Read More
Professionally– Oh, I’ll tell you. (indistinct) that has guided you– I think I can answer that. (laughs) I’ve had to rely on a lot of advice. ‘Cause I had quite a few brothers and they’re always telling me what to do. But no, when I went to college, I went… Read More
You can’t stick in a captive lion or tiger out there. But so there are some techniques there that we need to learn in geological parks, if we’re gonna breed animals, especially some of the bigger predators. We gotta to learn how to be able to reintroduce them. There are… Read More
Oh, there’s some pretty unique zoos around. I would say that there are certain elements of the Miami Zoo that are really effective. Read More
What I look at is how often do people come to zoological parks and why?… Read More
And therefore we have to work I think a lot harder on the programs zoological programs and how they affect people. There are a couple others zoological parks. There are quite a few of them that I enjoy. the San Diego Wild Animal Park is certainly done. It’s evolved to… Read More
They have to be new and different in some way that’s why a lecture demonstration is so important because it changes. And you can go to a lecture demonstration about reptiles or birds of prey or whatever at a zoological park. And it changes from time to time. Read More
Should every zoo strive to have a breeding program?… Read More
There are three reasons that justifies zoological parks. One is obviously the breeding of some of the endangered species in the hopes that someday those animals can be, we can learn how to put them back in the wild. We can’t breed a lot of animals and then have no… Read More