Well, I’m, I’m not a big expert on, on the species survival program. I mean, I’m, I’m aware it’s there and some of the species that that that we’ve been, that I’ve been involved in both, both in London and and over and and North Carolina, as far as I’m… Read More
Yeah, actually pretty good. And, and this is, this is one of the, one of the things the sort of anti anti zoo lobby keeps going on about is that, well, there’s been very few of these circumstances. I think the thing is that most, most of the really successful… Read More
Has the selection criteria to decide which animal species become part of the program met with what you envisioned?… Read More
Well not just zoo breeding, but other, you mentioned private breeders, in this case a government breeder bring breeding animals together in a consorted effort to put them back in the wild. But the main, the main examples have been with small, small animals, birds, a lot of birds, the… Read More
At one time, certainly in my early days in the zoo, oh, if you had a gorilla it never went anywhere else. You, you know, you had to, you know, there was no sort of no no getting together. That’s obviously changed dramatically over, over the last 30 to 40… Read More
How successful do you think zoos and aquarium have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wine?… Read More
I thought they did, at least. I mean there there’ve been efforts over the years to try to coordinate well a number of larger species. And obviously moving elephants is a, is a big issue. But a, I mean a ZA does have a ZA does anyway, have a program… Read More
Yeah. Why do you, why do you think that zoos did not implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
There are certain species, you mentioned finance, there are certain species that it seems might be good if there was a national program to, to, to do things. Read More
I mean, it’s a huge area, not 2 million, but 2000 square miles practically untouched because of civil war had really, nobody had been in that area, it was just unsafe to go into. But recent surveys show it to be pretty well unchanged over, you know, over a period… Read More
Well, it, it is, obviously it does. I’m, I’m not sure that it actually attracts any extra people. It is an addi, it’s an additional fac very family oriented additional facility, which, which provides an added dimension to the day out. And obviously many of the people coming to the… Read More
Do you believe there’s still a wild out there or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into managed wild zoos?… Read More
Yeah, that’s a, that’s a good question. There, there is a wild, it has to do mainly with, with just area, you know, acreage, to put it, to put it mildly, where, where there are areas that are largely untouched by humans and are big enough to still be mainly… Read More
What was the purpose? A dog presentation?… Read More
So what factors did you take into consideration when you said North Carolina has a dog show?… Read More
And even if you’re doing that, are you quite certain that that animal is comfortable in that situation or, or are there aspects of welfare where, you know, over handling a snake for example, that you know, is not used to being handled by a lot of people for six… Read More
I mean, I’m just just quoting the extreme there, but there are lots of things that have happened in the past. I think today both the zoo world and the audience is much more aware of whether an animal is comfortable or likely to be comfortable or not. So there… Read More
So the question that any animal handler, anybody conducting the show needs to ask is, is this an appropriate behavior to encourage the animal to do, or are we asking it to do something which, which is simply for human entertainment, is not really telling the audience anything valuable about… Read More
A lot of animals may seem to be comfortable in human presence, but give signs that they’re not, does it, does the show, does the show display behavior which is unnatural for that animal?… Read More
But if you are using non-domestic animals, then the whole question is, does what are you actually demonstrating with that animal?… Read More