When I went to the Bronx Zoo, it was like the old business about Boston, about the cabbits only speaking to God. And at the zoo, curators, there was a definite chasm between the curators and the veterinarians, not that there were very many of either. So I immediately started… Read More
The recorders, had to pass out a weekly record sheet that showed every single acquisition or birth, every single death, the curators and the veterinarians were expected to talk about any instance of illness or inappropriate behavior on the part of the animals, not the visitors. And this made a… Read More
Can we do this?… Read More
Can we get the curators and the veterinarians to work more closely together?… Read More
Do we wish to sustain this particular species, do we have a responsibility to bring in another species?… Read More
The Sheboygan Zoo wants us to make available a young female of this species. Read More
When you became director, how you talk about animals, how did you change the animal handling?… Read More
What were the challenges and problems when you first came in, as we’ve talked, transferring medical attention, things like that. When I became director at the Bronx Zoo, I was fortunate in that the zoo had had excellent veterinarians, but the zoo’s veterinary facilities were antiquated and we all wanted… Read More
I’d like to take a break. Okay. Read More
Why did I begin writing an increasing proportion of papers concerned with wildlife conservation as time went on?… Read More
I suppose we’d have to say it’s the animal’s fault. They began getting rarer, and rarer. Conservation became more and more of a concern in our world. So it was natural that my focus would turn from the individual animal to the survival of animals. More a change from how… Read More
Was it gradual?… Read More
Did you have a calling all of a sudden that you really, epiphany?… Read More
So making a bigger pool of people who would have the same ideas, the same commitment that we were trying to create, was it the base of what I was trying to do, that was early days, I was trying to find out what could be done. And I found… Read More
What happened to direct your vision and how did that affect your vision of the zoo and its development?… Read More
Why was that important?… Read More
And you kind of indicated kind of, it did not continue. Ultimately zoos must consider their responsibilities globally. They can’t do it locally. As an example, no one zoo can long sustain any species of animals bigger than that. You can’t do it, you can’t sustain enough of them unless… Read More
When we’re talking about the conference between south American zoos and the Mexican zoos and AZA, why was it not followed up?… Read More
Why was it important in your mind?… Read More
What did you take away from the experience?… Read More