You know, I think I’m not a fan of the news, or the media because they don’t seem to wanna do their homework and look up some of the other issues, some of the other sides of a discussion, some on side of a debate. They just sort of take… Read More
Is there any advice in the kind of relationship you think zoos, aquariums, or marine parks should have with the media?… Read More
I think they should do a really strong push to do op-eds and meet with the editors and say, “This is who we are. Why don’t you come and visit. Why don’t you take a walk around.” You know, you gotta make your friendships somewhere. And if you don’t do… Read More
But it has to be managed. It has to be managed like an open zoo or an open aquarium, with knowledgeable people that know how to do it. And not some sort of emotional, “Animals are free,” person who doesn’t understand the biology of the animal or the behavior of… Read More
How did you view the media, TV and print?… Read More
Were they the enemy or just people you had to cultivate?… Read More
It’s different from 50 years ago.” How will it be different 50 years from now?… Read More
What’s your vision?… Read More
Boy, 50 years from now, I’m hoping my vision would be that it’s the most beautiful marine park that people could come to and see animals in that type of pristine habitat that I was describing with the penguins where you feel the temperature, you hear them, you see them,… Read More
What advice do you give or would you give the person who stepped into your former position?… Read More
Did you leave a book with a note that said “Good luck?” I said good luck many times too. In fact I just had dinner with my person, what do you call it, not the survivor, the successor. (laughs) He may, in a way, think he’s surviving. But we still… Read More
He’s a lot nicer person. And he sometimes he has trouble saying no. And he knows that. But the advice is take care of the people who take care of the animals, and ask, “Why are you doing that?” Now, in an internal in March 2015, you said, “SeaWorld has… Read More
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, how did it shape SeaWorld acquiring animals, or for that matter, any aquarium?… Read More
The Marine Mammal Protection Act was put into effect in 1972 because of the bycatch that the tuna fishermen were having on dolphin populations by encircling them with purse seines. And as they brought the tuna to the surface, a lot of the dolphin were drowning in the nets. There… Read More
So it just became a little bit more, it became a lot more regulated, but it was the right thing to do. I wish they would do that with other types of species of fish and things like that. They just seem to have quotas, but I don’t know if… Read More
You said it takes money, and what’s it take financially to run such a diverse collection and keep it healthy and moving forward at SeaWorld?… Read More
I don’t really recall, to be honest with you, what the total budget was for animal departments. It’s lots, tens of millions, for sure. It costs a lot of money, it does. It costs a lot of money to rescue thousands of birds every year that we do. But, I… Read More
We need to to keep taking polls. Read More
We need to find out, are we doing the right thing?… Read More
And it’s very challenging sometimes, because people say in zoos and aquariums that we educate and we do conservation, but then somebody says, “Well, how much money do you spend at it?” “Well, we probably spend 3% for conservation.” “Well, that’s not enough.” So 3% of what? It’s always a… Read More