The profession is filled with individuals who have a passion and a love for what they’re doing, most of them. Some of them nowadays that are getting involved, I’m not sure why they’re getting involved at all. I don’t know if it’s because they think it’s important for their ego… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
Just that I wanted to keep moving forward instead of going backwards. Read More
Why can’t we get knowledgeable people to do this and stop the mass extinction that’s going on?… Read More
Now, this encompass a lot of discussions, because is then you’re gonna have to start talking about birth control, population growth, cultural issues, religious issues. I mean, there wouldn’t be any wars today if we didn’t have lines in the sand in religion. We could better take care of each… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
And, of course, some of them were millions and millions and millions of years ago, but they were caused mostly by some cataclysmic effect, or catastrophic effect. This sixth extinction that we’re in the midst of right now is being caused by people because there’s too many people and what… Read More
And you look at the animals that are gone, and now you’re looking at some of the animals that are on the edge and going away. We’re losing lots of species every day. You know, we’re losing things like bumblebees and we’re losing bats. And we’re and losing not just… Read More
And why can’t we go that way?… Read More
So there a lot of good places out there. And there’s a beautiful place of all, I went to a zoo outside of Brussels, Belgium just recently called Pairi Daiza. And it’s the biggest and most fantastic zoo I’ve ever seen. They have panda bears, and the orangutan exhibit is… Read More
‘Cause I know that people want to change it, they just don’t have the either the resources or the financial way to move forward. And some way along the line, we gotta move that forward, or just find other homes for those animals so we don’t have that side of… Read More
Any suggestions to those young professionals in the field on how to make a difference?… Read More
I think that the only advice I give people nowadays is get the truth, use the truth, and keep moving it forward because people are lazy nowadays sometimes and half the information is okay, half a job is okay. Not doing the thing 100% isn’t worth it to me. So… Read More
And if there is, why?… Read More
Where are they, other than SeaWorld?… Read More
I admire a lot of the, I admire parts. Parts of every zoo is good. I mean, some of them are better. St Louis Zoo is good, Fort Worth Zoo is good, San Diego’s Zoo is good. I mean, all my friends that are out there, Georgia Aquarium’s nice, Shedd… Read More
Somebody’ll say, “I wanna build that kind of a park.” And I’ll go, “I’m in.” What’s your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
I think my proudest accomplishment is simply being able to stay healthy and work 44 years in a job that I never dreamt of that I do and love every minute of it, even at bad times. Read More
Are there any zoos and aquariums and marine mammal parks in the world you particularly admire?… Read More
I would’ve called Dawn Brancheau that day and told her not to come to work if I could go back and play God, ’cause that’s still, it bugs me every day. You know, you can go back and look at a lot of things and say, “I should have done… Read More