Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 283
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
And very often what I’ve found, some of those younger folks initially don’t want to be until you start giving them or training them in ways that they build up a, a much broader ability to manage not just animal, the animal management is relatively simple. It’s the human management,… Read More
Well, I’m, I’m a little bit out of the current situation having, you know, been retired a few years ago, but I think it’s always been an issue as to, you know, are there, are there folks we’re talking here about animal curators, I presume there are always, there’s always… Read More
And what’s your take on how curators should be trained to do what’s expected?… Read More
And I think if you approach it like that and, and not just discard these folks, I mean that’s what’s happened a lot in the zoo world over the years. I think it’s better now in terms of building those relationships. But in the past there was a tendency to… Read More
Do you think that’s a problem?… Read More
Yes, absolutely. And, and we always, oh, I mean I, going back, gosh, for over 40 years when I was at London, when I was director at London and, and when I was senior vet before becoming director at London, was very much the height of the anti zoo lobby,… Read More
Anyway, it, it’s a complicated, very complicated world. Read More
Did you find it important that you brought those people to your facility?… Read More
And you create a partnership, you, you build so much of what we’re talking about is to do with relationships you build a relationship with, with those people. And what you find is that if you’ve got those folks on side or at least understanding what you are all about,… Read More
Well, very, I I, what I’ve found is within the zoo, well, and indeed within the biological community, generally a lot of people cannot differentiate between what animal welfare and animal rights. And what you have is a, is a sort of spectrum of views. I’m talking about views from… Read More
Now you had mentioned financial, considering that financial resources to many small or medium zoos are limited, what would you think should be the focus of the collection of those types of zoos?… Read More
I still think that all zoos should have a broad mix of species. Now there’s a lot of emphasis today on keeping endangered species, and that’s certainly part of the portfolio, if you like, of any zoo that should have a focus on some species that need extra protection, let’s… Read More
Can you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these groups?… Read More
A, a lot. A lot. And I think a lot of, a lot of these smaller zoos don’t realize often what they can do. I think there’s a sense of sense, well, you know, we are far too small, we haven’t got the money, but there’s several ways that they… Read More
So even, even if their resources are relatively meager. And the other, of course the other thing is that smaller zoos are some of the best institutions that dealing with local conservation issues. A lot of people when they talk about zoo conservation mean gorillas in Africa or wild dogs… Read More
Yeah, what Can they Do?… Read More
What can a small or a medium-sized municipal zoo do today to be involved in wildlife conservation?… Read More
Whether it’s national or international?… Read More
So when you started and a new zoo director today, those are the things or other things that you would say you need in your skillset young man to be a zoo director today?… Read More