Interview 8364 – Caption Index: 658
Would that kind of thing, with the tamarins, the Guam, kingfisher or some of these or the Andean condor, is that a program that is brought to you by your curatorial?… Read More
Would that kind of thing, with the tamarins, the Guam, kingfisher or some of these or the Andean condor, is that a program that is brought to you by your curatorial?… Read More
Was it by a curatorial staff saying we should be involved or was it you having the information saying, we will be involved in this project to help endangered species?… Read More
Yes, we did that with a lot of birds and it worked for the most part. Read More
And you had also involvement with the birds on Guam?… Read More
Graham Kingfisher project that several zoos got involved in because it was a serious problem that cropped up, it seems to me as I remember it, that it happened very quickly and we had to do something. And so we got as many as we could into zoos and the… Read More
Was that a national program that you participated in?… Read More
Ahem. Read More
Was one of your management strategies to try and double clutch or not?… Read More
No, I didn’t do that. We did bottle feed some, but got them used to other means of getting their food, rather than just with the keeper holding them and feeding them, trying to do it a little differently and better like the bird people and they’re using like the… Read More
How successful was your Andean with birds, through your Andean condor release program?… Read More
That was very successful. I noticed though that recently, we’re down to one Andean condor, so I’m not sure just, you know, that we had them for many years and I’m sure that what happened was, they just reached their lifespan and that’s it. But we did get eggs from… Read More
What was your philosophy regarding reproduction of endangered species via surrogate species?… Read More
Did you do any of that?… Read More
Did you have one animal, like, would you have a young hoofstock that weren’t nursing, would you take them or would you try and put them with other types of hoofstock for nursing?… Read More
I don’t think that I remember that we sent any back to the wild. We sent some to other zoos and that might have been, what they were doing is collecting them for return to the natural environment. You talked about population management as it affected your hoofstock with the… Read More
Were any of your hoof mammals ever involved in programs where they were brought back to an area like the Arabian arcs or any of those kinds of things?… Read More
Did you participate with any of these programs with animals that were raised at your zoo?… Read More
Yes, we did participate in the Scimitar horned oryx with San Diego, I believe it was. And I don’t know if I mentioned the blackbuck antelope reintroduction that we did in cooperation with ranchers who kept them on the ranch and had surplus, the zoo surplus and the zoo then… Read More
Why not try your best to reproduce them?… Read More
It just was a good program for us and we were able to do it. We have wonderful weather. We keep them out almost every day of the year. No problem with housing them, doesn’t require a lot of space, but that’s, again, that’s what a smaller zoo can do. Read More