Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 493
When you became director, how you talk about animals, how did you change the animal handling?… Read More
When you became director, how you talk about animals, how did you change the animal handling?… Read More
What were the challenges and problems when you first came in, as we’ve talked, transferring medical attention, things like that. When I became director at the Bronx Zoo, I was fortunate in that the zoo had had excellent veterinarians, but the zoo’s veterinary facilities were antiquated and we all wanted… Read More
I’d like to take a break. Okay. Read More
Why did I begin writing an increasing proportion of papers concerned with wildlife conservation as time went on?… Read More
I suppose we’d have to say it’s the animal’s fault. They began getting rarer, and rarer. Conservation became more and more of a concern in our world. So it was natural that my focus would turn from the individual animal to the survival of animals. More a change from how… Read More
Was it gradual?… Read More
Did you have a calling all of a sudden that you really, epiphany?… Read More
So making a bigger pool of people who would have the same ideas, the same commitment that we were trying to create, was it the base of what I was trying to do, that was early days, I was trying to find out what could be done. And I found… Read More
What happened to direct your vision and how did that affect your vision of the zoo and its development?… Read More
Why was that important?… Read More
And you kind of indicated kind of, it did not continue. Ultimately zoos must consider their responsibilities globally. They can’t do it locally. As an example, no one zoo can long sustain any species of animals bigger than that. You can’t do it, you can’t sustain enough of them unless… Read More
When we’re talking about the conference between south American zoos and the Mexican zoos and AZA, why was it not followed up?… Read More
Why was it important in your mind?… Read More
What did you take away from the experience?… Read More
No more Bronx Day at the Bronx Zoo. This was an interesting occasion at the request of the then Bronx borough president, the zoological society agreed to make Bronx Day free to everybody at the zoo. And the result was that teenagers were led out of school and there was… Read More
As a national organization, you feel AZA is important and continuing to fulfill its role?… Read More
I think AZA is essential to the operation of zoos in a professional and ethical fashion. I think, that the zoo world speaking globally is, unfortunate in that it does not have an association with the kind of strength AZA has. The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums is doing… Read More
You’ve alluded to some. There were a couple of things. I was trying very hard to professionalize the zoo field and this of course was before the accreditation program and before the SSP and the A and D acquisition and disposition policy. And before we decided what we were gonna… Read More
And it did a lot for us as Americans zoos, seeing a different view and hearing different views and our fledgling efforts to become more professional, had a most encouraging effect upon them, they’ve said to me. I don’t think they followed up with that and I hope they will… Read More
But when you were president, what were the accomplishments of AZA that you were most proud of and that you felt made a difference?… Read More