I’m not sure who at all contributed to the Arabian oryx program, but Arabian oryx have been sent from San Diego and Phoenix and elsewhere and I remember that a number of donors made those programs possible. Some of the programs in Madagascar with ring-tailed lemur reintroductions have originated in… Read More
You mentioned the ring-tailed lemurs, there was a developments of the society’s offsite breeding facility at St Catherine’s Island, how did the use of St Catherine’s come about and why there?… Read More
If I’m a donor and I wanna donate money and I’m talking about conservation, could you hold up one successful captive breeding program and reintroduction?… Read More
Would it be the condors or something else internationally?… Read More
They must begin to emphasize the species that need help. So they have larger collections and can interact with parks in a helpful fashion. If they don’t have the species of concern in the park, they can’t help. Should that interaction be going through some global initiative, clearing house, as… Read More
It will take a lengthy discussion and a lot of meetings between a lot of people in a lot of countries. I must say I have a whole series of ideas, but I don’t think we want to spend the next few days here. You wanna give me one. You’ve… Read More
We’ve talked about animal reserves, the potential wild zoo that may be out there and zoos, how do we develop this more exchanges, more cooperation between zoos and wildlife reserves?… Read More
Already that is happening. I forget the name of the reserve, I believe it is in South Africa, but I may be mistaken it might be in Zambia. It’s first rhino birth in many years, I believe it’s white rhino came about through a rhino that was sent from the… Read More
When we talk about nature, do you feel the importation of primate species is still a threat to population declines?… Read More
There are several problems. Chimpanzees should not be made subject to private ownership at all. I would have to say that the use of chimpanzees as the laboratory animals is very hard to justify. The use of some primates for some kinds of health research or even more justifiably, for… Read More
You had a kind of a groundbreaking way of acquiring money and putting the visitor in the mode of deciding where their fun should go, have others zoos followed this lead?… Read More
I think some are, and others are doing it in different ways. For example, several zoos are doing something I tried years ago and failed, and some zoos are adding a conservation fee to their admission fee. And I think that’s a particularly fruitful program. If you had a $10… Read More
Well, how would you improve upon it now?… Read More
It depends on the kind of exhibit I was going to make. But I’ll say one thing right off hand, it’s almost impossible to make a zoo exhibit too big. You can’t do it. So I would make it bigger. I would like to have seen the exhibit have, at… Read More
Do you think that type of exhibit would be possible in other zoos today and should they be put together or thought of by others who’s today?… Read More
I think the Congo exhibit is a very good model. It concentrates on a couple of species that need management and care, gorillas, okapis, for example, and, backs them up ecologically and educationally with smaller or abundant species. It presents the conservation picture in considerable detail, offers the visitor a… Read More
The problem of dealing with animals surplus is unresolved. We don’t know how to deal with the surplus of large animals. It is a problem of large animals. Nobody’s worrying about a surplus of bearing beetles or frogs, or fishes. I wish I had a quick and easy answer. I… Read More
Sometimes you do euthanize them, but almost always for serious health problems. But, eliminating an animal because it is of the wrong sex or genetic line, which happens in nature very hard to do in a zoo. And zoos as they’re still struggling with the problem. We talked about the… Read More
It brings up the point then, sometimes animal dealers certainly would take the surplus at times from zoos. Read More
How should zoos be dealing with surplus animals today?… Read More