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And he had been, by the way, he was the person that the US Fish and Wildlife Service sent over to Asia to bring back all the monkeys that were the Salk vaccine research monkeys. There was an island off South Carolina where all those monkeys were kept, but he’s… Read More
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And sure enough, when I walked up to the door, he remembered me, how you doing Jim?… Read More
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I guess, where you were getting paid at the Ocala Florida Raptor Sanctuary?… Read More
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Was that your first?… Read More
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Birds of Prey. It was called Birds of Prey. John Hamlet’s. (indistinct) John Hamlet Birds of Prey. Well, John Hamlet had been my mentor when I lived in Maryland, when I was like 14 or 15. And he also was very well connected with a Protection Research Center, which was… Read More
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Do you wanna start that again?… Read More
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No. (indistinct) Okay. Read More
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You had mentioned your first job, and was your first job working with animals?… Read More
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Very much. In fact, I don’t know. That’s a good question. Was I involved in sports because I was actually suited up. I was going into professional baseball, the Yankees and the Phillies, both who had offered me a big bonuses when I got out of high school. I was… Read More
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So I didn’t wanna go into professional sports right out of high school, ’cause I wanted to have the fun of playing in college sports, collegiate sports. But by then, when I messed my leg up playing football, I had a hard time. I did go back and did a… Read More
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But I had that cheetah. I used to raise that cheetah down in Albany, Georgia on my plantation. Read More
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For some reason this just lingered in my perception of the natural world. But that’s where I learned that rhinos eject their urine backwards. You don’t wanna be standing behind a rhino because at the National Zoo I saw somebody who was walking by, and the rhino really blasted them… Read More
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How old were you then?… Read More
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Well, I was in about 14 or 15. I think I’d gone to the zoo before that, because my parents were obviously zoo goers. And I remember the National Zoo very well. It had a lot of buildings at the zoo. In those days a lot of the zoological parks… Read More
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Were you involved in sports?… Read More
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Okay?… Read More
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I met a guy who was turned out to be a mentor of mine. And he worked with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. And he also was connected to the National Zoo. He brought in animals from different parts of the world. Read More
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And I might add that this guy had a tremendous gift of the gab, if you know what I mean?… Read More
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And I used to go up into the mountains of Virginia, the Appalachians, and he would use me to go over the cliff to a peregrine falcon (indistinct) and film the chicks and things like that. But he was a real visionary. His name was John Hamlet. And so wait… Read More
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Yeah. Read More