Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 561
And where a zoo does pay, are we really sure how the money is being used?… Read More
And where a zoo does pay, are we really sure how the money is being used?… Read More
Well, necessary?… Read More
Does anybody think China needs that kind of money even a few years ago?… Read More
Why not?… Read More
The Rent a Panda Program, which China had introduced where upon it was sending out zoos, sending out pandas to zoos for high prices that seem to me to commercialize the wellbeing, the presentation, the whole atmosphere of the giant Panda effort and its conservation in a way that was… Read More
I have to make a confession. I was not very keen about having to bring giant pandas a few years ago to the Bronx Zoo. Read More
And people crowded all around it with their noses on the glass. Just as much as they were at the wonderful hippo exhibits at San Diego and St. Louis and many other places nowadays to see the hippos underwater, where they spend so much of their life and where they’re… Read More
How did the acquisition of giant pandas affect the zoo?… Read More
Because in nature lions sleep or rest as much as 21 hours a day, a fact that few of your visitors understand. And after all, when they see them on television, they’re obviously running and catching and eating something or trying to hurt each other, or what have you. But… Read More
I don’t know whether that’s still going there, but it was built into the building and it may be, this has been done in a number of zoos, sometimes very effectively with a sound of thunder and even lightning. Showing a little bit of nature’s activity, reminding people that the… Read More
I’d like them to see you.” And I suppose that’s true. Many of the animals are quite interested in the visitors. On the other hand, when you see as many visitors as some animals do, in some exhibits, it is very much like a waterfall and one becomes less interested,… Read More
Why?… Read More
In a good zoo exhibit, that’s no problem. The visitor maintains his or her own attention. In some zoo exhibits, the animal maintains the visitor’s attention. I’ve been interested to see gorillas, essentially walk over when they feel visitors aren’t looking and give them the eye and gesture as though… Read More
And I’ve felt sometimes in taking visitors through the Congo Gorilla Exhibit, in fact, I even found myself saying this a week or two ago, “Won’t you come to our gorilla exhibit?… Read More
How does one maintain a visitor’s attention?… Read More
Yes, there were. It was mighty cold. The wind was strong at times. And the worst hardship came when, Luis Pena, who was outfitting it, we were using his trucks and he was providing the food and all for us, for me, I was the only outsider there. When we… Read More
What would you say were the keys to maintaining your visitor’s attention at the various exhibits?… Read More
Where their hardships on the trip with the flamingos?… Read More
Where their hardships on the trip to obtain James flamingos?… Read More
I said, “Yes, I can handle them.” Well, we have to sex them. And the veterinarian is perfectly willing to sex them, but he’s afraid to try and catch them and handle them. A lammergeier is a great big vulture like bird. So I left the meeting and they provided… Read More