It’s not connected with Mutual Omaha. Like I say, I’ve tried to form groups in the past. I had one group called O-W-L. Organization of Wildlife Lectures, but it’s been difficult cause I’ve strung myself out a little bit too thin. But I really am enthusiasts. Now, I have about… Read More
And like I say, they’re probably a thousand people from nature science centers from zoological parks, private individuals who are dedicated to go out and talk to groups without live animals. Or they don’t have to have live animals. They can be show film or they can do whatever they… Read More
And then I had one of the kids come up and help me find the cockroaches by putting them back in my pocket. So I started developing. I was scared of 1400 forth graders in a big auditorium, but I started perfecting ways that I could capture the audience’s attention… Read More
And they would say, we’re the people from Mutual of Omaha and Wild Kingdom. And there’d be a smile on the person that lived in the house face and they’d let him in. He would open them up for a conversation by just talking about Wild Kingdom. So that was… Read More
Is that group part of…… Read More
And guess what?… Read More
They were 1500 forth graders. That’s the most frightening situation I’ve ever been in. Read More
How do you get the attention of 1500 forth graders?… Read More
So I had a backstage. I had a guy that had a lot of hissing cockroaches in a jar. So I stuck… That’s why these pockets are so great. I loaded my pockets with this pocket with part with hissing cockroaches, and then I took a ball snake, you know,… Read More
Yeah. I think I learned a little bit on how to get the… I already knew how to get the attention of the audience, but I started refining what I was talking about. Read More
At that time I was evolving intellectually and trying to figure out what should I be talking about so that people would remember what I said, and why it was important to the big picture?… Read More
So I think that was a time when I was working some of that out. I pretty well knew, I had certain routines I’d go through that I knew how to capture an audience, but I think I refined that a little bit because I like to feel an audience… Read More
Well, yeah, I was at one point Mutual head of program that did get involved in that. And it was very exciting because they knew that I had certain things to say and talk about. In addition to showing animals, but it was a… Yeah, we did that for quite… Read More
And your question was, what did I?… Read More
What did you when you’re doing it, what did you learn or you discovered as you visited these sites?… Read More
Thank you. That was very good. Yeah. (indistinct) You are currently the executive director of Mutual of Omaha’s Wildlife Heritage Center. A job that entails visiting zoos, nature centers around the country. Read More
What have you discovered or learned as you visited these sites?… Read More
And am I correct in my definition?… Read More
A hyena will sit and wait till there’s no movement, an animal that’s dying. They won’t go after it, if it’s moving its face or one of his legs, but the minute there’s no movement, they’ll go ahead and kill it. But anyway, one night I heard hyenas coming in… Read More
They consume the bones of a lot of animals to get the marrow out of the bone. They have very, very strong teeth. And you look into the eye of a hyena and it has no depth to it. I mean, it’s just black. So anyway, these hyenas I knew… Read More