Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 15
Where is this nature?… Read More
Where is this nature?… Read More
And this is the kind of problem we’re dealing with in dealing with anti zoo people. How can you be anti zoo when you can see that in the next few years, fewer and fewer animals will exist without intensive management. That we’re moving into a world of, many parks… Read More
Increasingly zoo management is having to be applied to animals in nature. We’re going to have to manage them ever more. I don’t know why I’m losing my voice here. Read More
Going to have to manage them– Would you like some water?… Read More
They must manage their animals very carefully. They cannot become facilities that are sustaining nothing but animals that are beyond their breeding age. That’s a tough problem to discuss with people who are concerned with humane issues, and every zoo person is so concerned. But again, looking at my experience,… Read More
How can you make intelligent decisions in a democracy if you can’t understand that two plus two makes four?… Read More
Could you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these type of people that don’t have the same mindset?… Read More
My personal experience in dealing with animal rights, people who are anti zoo, and of course not all animal rights people are anti zoo, but my experience has been that one must attempt to involve them, to educate them. We’re dealing with some very, very difficult questions. If, for example,… Read More
Zoos in many cases today– Is that your phone?… Read More
(man clears throat) Today in many cases, zoos are afraid to confront wildlife animal rights groups, animal welfare groups that seem to be against zoos and maintaining animals in captivity. Many times, some people in authority or who are managing the zoos, seem afraid to deal with this. Read More
How do they help?… Read More
If you are with a small zoo, you can make a major contribution, even though you are limited in what you can breed or exhibit in the zoo. Because you can help build constituency. If we don’t build a constituency for wildlife, all the efforts we make to propagate it… Read More
Now, if you’re a small. Don’t worry about looking at camera, you can go ahead and talk to Mark. Okay. Read More
What can a small, you are a very large organization, what can a small or medium-sized municipal zoo do today to get involved in this wildlife conservation, either nationally or internationally?… Read More
When I started in the zoo profession, it was a different world. Getting animals for a zoo was not a problem, not a necessary skillset. Knowing something about the global situation of wild animals was really not part of the skillset. If you’re going to be a zoo director in… Read More
Somebody who doesn’t, I don’t take shit off of anybody, and I don’t think I ever did. And I survived. I want to be remembered as somebody who took over a weak institution and I helped build it into something that’s world-class and was gonna be remembered. That’s the greatest… Read More
What do I know about the profession. I’ll comment on the people I know, I think zoos and aquariums have got a cadre of the most dedicated people in any professional. Well, you know, doctors are dedicated and so forth, but outside of the medical profession, I think we just… Read More
I don’t think you see that kind of dedication and even let’s say medical professional help me. I don’t know how many doctors I see crying over a lost patient. How do you wanna be remembered. Read More
As a crusty old man?… Read More
Do you want me to describe the style of architecture?… Read More