And people crowded all around it with their noses on the glass. Just as much as they were at the wonderful hippo exhibits at San Diego and St. Louis and many other places nowadays to see the hippos underwater, where they spend so much of their life and where they’re… Read More
How did the acquisition of giant pandas affect the zoo?… Read More
Because in nature lions sleep or rest as much as 21 hours a day, a fact that few of your visitors understand. And after all, when they see them on television, they’re obviously running and catching and eating something or trying to hurt each other, or what have you. But… Read More
I don’t know whether that’s still going there, but it was built into the building and it may be, this has been done in a number of zoos, sometimes very effectively with a sound of thunder and even lightning. Showing a little bit of nature’s activity, reminding people that the… Read More
I’d like them to see you.” And I suppose that’s true. Many of the animals are quite interested in the visitors. On the other hand, when you see as many visitors as some animals do, in some exhibits, it is very much like a waterfall and one becomes less interested,… Read More
Why?… Read More
In a good zoo exhibit, that’s no problem. The visitor maintains his or her own attention. In some zoo exhibits, the animal maintains the visitor’s attention. I’ve been interested to see gorillas, essentially walk over when they feel visitors aren’t looking and give them the eye and gesture as though… Read More
And I’ve felt sometimes in taking visitors through the Congo Gorilla Exhibit, in fact, I even found myself saying this a week or two ago, “Won’t you come to our gorilla exhibit?… Read More
How does one maintain a visitor’s attention?… Read More
Yes, there were. It was mighty cold. The wind was strong at times. And the worst hardship came when, Luis Pena, who was outfitting it, we were using his trucks and he was providing the food and all for us, for me, I was the only outsider there. When we… Read More
What would you say were the keys to maintaining your visitor’s attention at the various exhibits?… Read More
Where their hardships on the trip with the flamingos?… Read More
Where their hardships on the trip to obtain James flamingos?… Read More
I said, “Yes, I can handle them.” Well, we have to sex them. And the veterinarian is perfectly willing to sex them, but he’s afraid to try and catch them and handle them. A lammergeier is a great big vulture like bird. So I left the meeting and they provided… Read More
Even though we have lost habitat, we have chances of restoring it or so modifying it or eliminating hunters in an area. If hunting is the only problem, if the disease is the problem that we can cure, we have a good chance of restoration. Read More
In my opinion, there will be more and more, unfortunately, because increasingly zoo biologists are going to be asked to go out and rescue this species and that species and that species and sustain them for a while, just as happened with the last 22 condors, the whooping cranes as… Read More
The zoo’s current curator of birds, Dr. Nancy Klam has just been in a project in central America. They’re discovering that the scarlet macaws in that area are doing poorly. That many of their chicks are not surviving, where they have two chicks, often one is lost. Nancy has learned… Read More
There’s a multiplier effect or can be, and where there’s going to be collecting in the future, we need to work hard to get that kind of a multiplier effect. Read More
Well, will there be collections in the future?… Read More
So I went up there and then a rather difficult trip with the help of the Chilean entomologists, Luis Pena, who had guided Peterson, I was able to get a small collection of James flamingos. The first ever, and to get them to feed and do well and I brought… Read More