It’s no wonder why the cost of everything is skyrocketing when a team has to do everything together, when in fact the same task was performed by one person years before. Now, it may not be all the fault of the zoo or the company. Maybe the regulating system in… Read More
So what better way to change that than to have an elephant that you can actually see?… Read More
Not pictures, not video, not on television. That’s not the same. I’ve seen many elephants in the wild and they never cease to amaze me. And I often wonder what does the visitor who’s never seen that think about having an elephant. And I think I also think that, I… Read More
Is that a complaint you had when you were president?… Read More
I heard it many times when I was a board member and as president. Elephants seemed to be always in the news, the AZA is building a new elephant, or at least your consortium is building a new elephant facility for space with breeding, et cetera. Read More
What’s your view regarding zoos maintaining elephants and how should it be done correctly if it can be?… Read More
I don’t know if it can be from the standpoint of who’s assessing the what’s correct and what isn’t. I think any zoo that can have an elephant ought to have it for the community, let’s face it, they may not be around in the next generation. Read More
Not what do you have to do because you are a member of our organization, but what you need from us, what’s the most important need?… Read More
And it’s always gonna be different. Not everyone has the same need. Lincoln Park probably has a different need than Brookfield. But that’s got a question that AZA should be asking its members. Yes. I think AZA ought to be asking them. Elephants seem– Let me also add one more… Read More
Maybe it’s different now, but I doubt it. Read More
What issues if you were on the board and were the chair and could make your thoughts known, would you want them to be addressing now?… Read More
Well, I think they have to reach out more to every zoo and ask them the question that I often did when I was on the board in the old days, too. Read More
What do you need from us as an association?… Read More
What do you need from us?… Read More
Jumping back a little at the national level, as opposed to local, what concerns or what issues would you like, if you were on the board, AZA to be addressing now?… Read More
On the national level?… Read More
Yeah. I mean the national organization. Oh, the national organization. Yeah. Read More
What do you want them to feel about the zoo when they get there or when they leave?… Read More
What were you trying to accomplish?… Read More
Well, Steve McCusker has a saying, and I think it’s great. Whenever anything goes out, a printed item goes out to a zoo member or whatever, it says, visit your San Antonio Zoo. That’s their zoo. And that’s what I’ve said all along today. And you have to assess the… Read More