Professionally– Oh, I’ll tell you. (indistinct) that has guided you– I think I can answer that. (laughs) I’ve had to rely on a lot of advice. ‘Cause I had quite a few brothers and they’re always telling me what to do. But no, when I went to college, I went… Read More
You can’t stick in a captive lion or tiger out there. But so there are some techniques there that we need to learn in geological parks, if we’re gonna breed animals, especially some of the bigger predators. We gotta to learn how to be able to reintroduce them. There are… Read More
Oh, there’s some pretty unique zoos around. I would say that there are certain elements of the Miami Zoo that are really effective. Read More
What I look at is how often do people come to zoological parks and why?… Read More
And therefore we have to work I think a lot harder on the programs zoological programs and how they affect people. There are a couple others zoological parks. There are quite a few of them that I enjoy. the San Diego Wild Animal Park is certainly done. It’s evolved to… Read More
They have to be new and different in some way that’s why a lecture demonstration is so important because it changes. And you can go to a lecture demonstration about reptiles or birds of prey or whatever at a zoological park. And it changes from time to time. Read More
Should every zoo strive to have a breeding program?… Read More
There are three reasons that justifies zoological parks. One is obviously the breeding of some of the endangered species in the hopes that someday those animals can be, we can learn how to put them back in the wild. We can’t breed a lot of animals and then have no… Read More
Why is the rainforest important to humans?… Read More
So it all comes back down to that communication. I would say that there’s a bird park in Singapore that’s very effective that I think in the right direction. And I hear some good things about some of the… Well, there’s one in Hong Kong that I hear pretty good… Read More
But you see, once again, it’s taking things out of the wild and trying to put them in an artificial background and you have to answer the questions, so what?… Read More
So, anyway, that’s one of my long answers to your question, ’cause we have to influence not only people in this country, but we have to learn to influence people overseas. And it’s not just that we should stop poaching. I don’t think zoological parks… I think they can do… Read More
I personally am not into pouring concrete, but if you’re in a limited spatial area, you got to, you gotta create a nice exhibit for people. I would say that first of all, the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha is doing, I think, a very good job. They have space. Read More
I think a lot of this you ask how can zoological parks be more effective instead of a building concrete?… Read More
How can they help?… Read More
It’s not just going over and helping the rhino. That’s part of it. But it’s influencing people to be aware of some of the conditions on the planet that affect all of us. That’s the key to it. It’s even in Africa, there are two things that make the Africans… Read More
But secondly, we have to start telling them that what you’re we have to predict the lives that they’re creating for themselves. A lot of people, unfortunately from the remote areas are coming into the cities and we call it poverty. Where they came from, it wasn’t poverty. They had… Read More
And I could go through a whole slew of things, you know. One of the things is to try to get the media convinced that you’ve got something really good to say that should be revealed to the public on the media. So that’s where this specialized channel or a… Read More
First of all, there should be a lot more educated communicators in zoological parks who know how to get on use television, know how to talk to schools, what the messages are?… Read More
I think we… Hey, listen, everything is in an evolutionary process of awareness. Zoological parks have come from collections of animals of strange animals to now very, very attractive exhibits with animals out of the wild that have been brought so people can see them. But now there’s another step… Read More