Do you feel that within the zoo community, the people, whether they be directors or other positions, understand about the seminal papers and ideas such as Heine, Heger being the father of zoo biology, if they read them or understand them, or the Lee Crandall who’ve written books on the… Read More
Do you feel we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservations?… Read More
Obviously example of Jacque Gusto or Jane Goodall?… Read More
I think it’s very important. That’s how we have these species, those species we have that are endangered conservation breeding, if that’s what you want to call it. So they’re parting for our education programs and to teach people about different types of conservation such as human animal, human wildlife… Read More
Yeah, it does. I mean, as when I was in Sacramento, we certainly did it with hoad and I think you can do it with hosta because they’re basically animals that we eat, you know, and so people sort of have a, we’re never gonna u we’re never gonna euthanize… Read More
What do you feel is the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
And does euthanizing of endangered species ’cause of surplus genetic issues still pose a political problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
How should zoos think about dealing with surplus animals?… Read More
He said, a hundred percent, you know, he is, you gotta understand you’re gonna have some sad times. Never bothered me too much. I’m not saying I’m not, didn’t feel bad when an animal passed away. But I, the ones that, the ones that bothered me the most were elephants… Read More
You gotta understand as, as when people ask Bill Conway how many animals die in a zoo?… Read More
So Two parts. Read More
Would you recommend the zoo, aquarium field to a young person with a sincere interest in wildlife and conservation today? Why?… Read More
I think ’cause it’s a great profession. You gotta be passionate about it, you know, you gotta understand it know, I think it’s a great profession and there it’s a lot of fun. I mean I, you know, I travel the world as a zoo director for god’s sake. So,… Read More
But I just, I just enjoyed it. But I don’t know what’s not to enjoy about it. Again, you, we’ve talked a little bit about politics and depends how the zoo is organized and sometimes that can cause a problem. Read More
Benedict was a drama teacher and I had just been elected senior class president. I was giving some speech and she took me aside, I gotta teach you to public speak. He said, I gotta teach you to project. Now you can see I’m yelling too much. So I have… Read More
I supported my best friend Mike and the other guy got elected. So I wasn’t gonna get appointed to the Hees saw that I got appointed to a position so I could have something to do for that semester. So I’ve, I’ve learned things from, a lot of people have… Read More
And when I went to San San Francisco, Margaret Burs was my boss, Peggy Burs, and she was the head of the Zeus Society. She got us taking a class called Management by Objectives. And my whole life I’ve worked that out, you know, where you set up plans and… Read More
Everybody I worked for gave me something. As I said, Warren Thomas, one of the things he taught me is no matter how small the, the pro, how small the issue is, do it. If I say do it. So when I was that assistant curator, you know, I, Rick… Read More
You’ve had mentors, what lessons did you take away from ’em?… Read More
Right. So I think that was important advice and I, I knew that it would, again, no matter how passionate I would feel about an idea, unless I could sell it to other people, it didn’t really make any sense. But I love the mile angel quote about do the… Read More