And so that’s where that connectivity with your constituents, listening to your constituents, visiting with your constituents, you know, when you go to remodel or expand your facility, you need to engage not only donors and the politicos, you need to involve your membership who do have memberships at the… Read More
Very concerned, absolutely completely concerned about them staying relevant in this day and age, because this day and age is so much different from when I was young or even middle age, regarding what people’s expectations are regarding entertainment and engagement. And, and they have so many choices with their… Read More
Relevant? What direction do you think will help ’em stay relevant?… Read More
Are you concerned about Zeus and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
It’s all a balance. It’s a balance of what mission are you trying to accomplish locally regarding education, informing and sharing what your constituents, what they would like and enjoy from an educational and exhibit perspective. And also having resources available to work in the field. Yes, we can overbuild… Read More
And you say what?… Read More
Say it’s a balance. Okay. It, it’s a balance. We wanted to bring this mega, this species to this city to help inform and help educate. And we wanted to do it humanely with great animal welfare in place that requires this amount of space. Okay. And we decided to… Read More
I don’t know. You know, the, the biggest challenge is when Jacque Gau, I remember Jacque Gusteau because the undersea world of Jacque Gusteau, there were three networks at the time. Okay? It wasn’t YouTube, there wasn’t social media. It was e everybody would talk about Ee world of Jacque… Read More
Mother Earth and her residents need a huge champion. We talked about exhibits. When a zoo spends multimillions of dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or a tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this money, which is usually in the multimillions, is not used to help the animals in… Read More
Yes. You know, Jane, obviously Jane’s getting quite on an age, you know, do we have any of those right now?… Read More
We need heroes. We absolutely need high profile heroes who are advocating, you know, Attenborough, you know, those kinds of wonderful people who are out there advocating for the earth for its diversity to protect it. Read More
My examples certainly are Jacque Sau or Jane Goodall, et cetera. Read More
Do we have any of those type of people now that you’re aware of?… Read More
You know, I think, I think a a zoological institution needs to make a, a limited commitment to a number of species that they can do. Okay. I think zoos can do a better job of educating about conservation and informing about conservation and doing some field conservation. And I… Read More
What would you say is the role of conservation, breeding or breeding for conservation purposes in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
Do you think we have any, or do we need any charismatic committed heroes to help shift public opinion regarding conservation?… Read More
I, I think you make a commitment to, I believe in taking care of an animal to its natural death or until proper because of the quality of life issue. You design spaces, you make a commitment to a species or you make a commitment to individual animals. Okay? You… Read More
Just because he was surplus doesn’t mean that we don’t want Ted anymore. And so, I mean, we had to provide resources and space for ’em, but you do that to the best of your ability and you actually plan on that. And if you can’t really manage a species… Read More
And the humane thing to do after great analysis and discussion and physical examinations, all kinds of, you know, tests on the animal, good science said the proper thing would be to euthanize because of the health of an animal. That’s very hard to explain to people who are emotional… Read More
So how does zoos deal with the surplus animal issue?… Read More