I don’t think so. I think that, I think my colleagues at the park were happy for me and I stayed friends with them and I wasn’t supervising them. I had a whole nother group at the zoo. And I wasn’t that young now. Read More
And I think that I, I was able to, I got along with people very well at that point. And I think that, no, I, I don’t think there was resentment. I think there was just her, it, it, it wasn’t a zoo. That they were very good to their… Read More
So when you started at the curator of mammals, you knew people, but did the older keepers resent this young college educated curator coming in?… Read More
So it was just, you wouldn’t get that back then. There were very, no, who I think would let somebody, somebody do that kind of trip and pay for the whole thing. Read More
And it’s about me and the Arabian ORs. I don’t know where the footage is. It’s, it was some TV show that they did for a while. And so the, the Arabian ORs arrived fine. That was an interesting experience. ’cause we get there with these crates and you got… Read More
You know, they, they don’t listen to anything. Luckily the animals made it. And, and, but on the way back, Dolan would always make us go see other zoos. So when I got done with the Arabian Orks, I stayed in, in Europe for another, like two weeks on the,… Read More
What are your responsibilities?… Read More
We had two curator mammals and one was there carmie. And then I came in and we just, you know, overlapped on on and split some duties and stuff. But, and I had worked with Car Ma at, at the park too. So we were both coming to the zoo. Read More
So you, you were exposed to a lot. Like I said, when I took the Arabian Orx over to Oman, that was right at Christmas time. I, I celebrated Christmas in the Saudi Arabian Desert in the empty quarter it was called. And I’m there with a, a guy named… Read More
But, but it was, you know, the senior staff was really do and called the shots. Read More
Oh, that was, this is just special. Now, who were the senior staff at the zoo when you become the curator of mammals At, at the zoo then it was Jim Dolan now had moved from the park to the zoo and he was director of collections. Art Risa was… Read More
Are you in charge of all the mammals at the zoo?… Read More
But, but there was so many things that happened, you know, in, in use in, in San Diego. Like the day EO Wilson came at Wilson, came to the zoo to see a Sumatra rhino that had just arrived. It was the first time he ever seen a sumach and… Read More
Well, I was at the Safari Park. So the zoo, the zoo and the Safari Park were like separate entities under the same umbrella. They were very different. The keepers at, at the park, we always thought we worked harder than the keepers at the zoo because we were out… Read More
So had the zoo changed any since you were there in 79?… Read More
Well, I would’ve preferred the animal park probably, but curator of the San Diego Zoo wasn’t a bad gig. And, and Jim Dolan was the one that wanted me back. So he had been talking to me and it’s, it’s San Diego. Miami was starting to get a little frustrating… Read More
So it was, and, and Diane was fine with going to, to San Diego from Miami across country. So it was, it, you know, I could have stayed at Miami, but I couldn’t, I you can’t turn down San Diego. And I just thought it was a, a, a great… Read More
So from 1988 to 1993, your curator mammals at San Diego Zoo, number one, why do you leave your job at Miami?… Read More
What prompts you to want to return to a zoo and not the animal park?… Read More
In 1986 I did a copy and a conservation project. And when you start doing papers at a ZA conferences, that, that’s, that certainly helps your resume. And, and also helped me, you know, and then I went back to San Diego. But those, those years in Miami were, were… Read More