Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 386
So it was always gonna be an attraction for visitors. So, Well, you were director and even at Front Royal when you were in charge, did you have to deal with donors?… Read More
So it was always gonna be an attraction for visitors. So, Well, you were director and even at Front Royal when you were in charge, did you have to deal with donors?… Read More
Well, you know what I, I didn’t know about phasing out the giraffes at the National Zoo. I’m sure Bill knew all about that. But the broader case, but generally, generally it comes into two categories. One would be insufficiency of housing, caging facilities you can’t address some need or… Read More
What factors do you think drive decisions about adding or phasing out the species within?… Read More
Is the job gonna change?… Read More
No, but I feel I deserve more credit for what I’m doing. I mean, this kind of stuff, it just takes up time, but you have to do it. It’s kinda like dealing with the family, with the kids or family members that you may disagree with about things and,… Read More
And it’s like, what’s wrong with your title?… Read More
But that curator shouldn’t have done, I don’t know who the curator was, but shouldn’t have happened. So you don’t wanna put your staff at any kind of risk of losing life or limb for whimsical reasons like that. Yeah, that’s, that’s what I would say is the human problems. Read More
And he had one hand, the other hand was a hook. And the curator said, stick your hand in that cage with the panda and see if he’s sleeping. And he did it. And the hand that took panda took his hand off at the wrist and there was no… Read More
When you were director and had that position, what would you say was the hardest part of your job that people rarely saw, if ever?… Read More
You know, you have to be on the guard for all those or, and those are the things, like if they’re avoidable mistakes, it hurts like hell when it happens. But if they’re on, if they’re not avoid avoidable, if they’re acts of God as they call it, acts of… Read More
I don’t know. I didn’t, I didn’t, the biological parts of the job were not that hard. The human parts of the job were the hardest parts. You know, it was just looking at your videos, who was, it was saying Bill Breaker was talking about the people problems. You… Read More
And then there’s another group of people that feel that it’s part of the legacy and heritage of America. And that the prairies were a vast ecosystem that provided important services for the indigenous people. And we’re fully evolved kind of ecological communities with inter dependencies and mutuality and everything… Read More
Ecological services, I mean, a lot of people would say, well, why, why save the black-footed ferret and prairie dogs?… Read More
What do you think is a misconception about zoo work that you wish that the public understood?… Read More
Well, the basic problem that I see it is that people don’t, the public doesn’t understand very much about wildlife. I mean, all you have to do is at this time of the year, look at YouTube and see the number of people that are getting beat up by bison… Read More
I don’t know, that’s a kind of pie in the sky kind of question, which I appreciate because you got me kind of stumped. But I’ve always been a scientist that liked to conduct experiments and you know, in that training course that we did in zoo biology, we were… Read More
And, you know, that’s what it’s all about. Read More
So if you had unlimited influence, if you did within the profession, not necessarily right now, but based on your experience, what would you change about the profession if you had unlimited influence?… Read More
And I said, oh, I said, they’re really expensive. I said, you can get ’em from Bio Quip in la. But I said, I had that made by a tailor in Burma, ’cause I could get it for, you know, $2. But I said, they cost like 45 bucks. He… Read More
And then I called up a friend of mine, Dan Paul Heus and Museum of Natural. He said, you told him the right thing. So the eggs hatched and everything. So that little girl was, the last time I saw her, she was, she was getting a, she was like… Read More