Interview 30880 – Caption Index: 539
Oh, Who were your Mentors?… Read More
Oh, Who were your Mentors?… Read More
What lessons did you take away from some of them?… Read More
What are we trying to do today and what do we wanna do tomorrow?… Read More
I’m the, because the zoo was founded by a very wonderful person, aren’t it Folsom, who, who had a dream of creating a wonderful place to engage children in the natural world. And then I became a successor of that dream in 1986, and it was my responsibility to carry… Read More
What is the dream for the children’s zoo into the future?… Read More
What, what was potentially the most important piece of advice you received that has stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Career, years and years and years ago, I think it was at the Children’s Zoo Symposium in Philadelphia, probably 30, 35 years ago when somebody said, an interpreter said, as the zoo director, you’re the keeper of the dream. I went, the keeper of the dream keeper, the dream for… Read More
The simple little zoo. It was such an inspiration for me as a young zoo manager, that going, gosh, you don’t have to build big multi-billion dollar areas. You can select species, help save them, utilizing the resources. It doesn’t have to be great big, you can still engage the… Read More
I think the Lincoln Children’s Zoo does a pretty good job too. Read More
Why do you, why and where are they?… Read More
You know, years and years and years and years ago, back in the early eighties, part of my inspiration to get into the zoo world was one, Gerald Durrell, who built the Jersey Zoo on the allo jersey in the English Channel. Okay. It became a Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Read More
Are there zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
So I’m very, very proud of the photo arc that the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, we said yes. We said yes. And he has got that message out now internationally, Lincoln Children’s Zoo animals have been, have been projected on the Vatican, the Hague, the UN building in New York, all… Read More
We can be great at getting the word out about saving the natural world. Mention zoos. Read More
And he’s got his lens in through the little front there, taking the, the photo or we painted, if it’s a holding area, like for a tiger, you paint the holding area all black or all white, and you floodlight it from outside, obviously cut a little hole in the… Read More
And we put the naked mo rat went in the commissary, the diet kitchen at the zoo on the white chopping block and put the naked mo rat there. And Joel came in with his cameras and his lighting and, and he says, let’s do another species. So we kept… Read More
You know, you’ve, you’ve been in the water swimming, taking, taking all kinds of phenomenal pictures and have you sacrificed your health going out around the world?… Read More
He says he, he was inspired, I forget who the artist was ’cause I want an animal on a white background or a black background. So all you do is focus on that animal. You just see that animal directly. He said, I what animals? He says, all animals. I’m… Read More
I said, what do you mean portraits?… Read More
I said, you travel the world. You get pictures of these animals in their natural habitat. You’ve got grizzly bears. Read More