You know, we do have camps for kids. We have done those, you know, occasional, you know, be a zookeeper for a day. But what we try to do is organize those things more from an educational perspective. Just like the Lincoln Children’s Zoo for over 25 years has had… Read More
What do you feel about visitor?… Read More
What do you feel about visitor experiences?… Read More
You’ve mentioned experiences, visitors want, experience. Read More
It’s just, I’m being very honest. None of us wanna say we failed. We all wanna be successful. Especially when it considers you spent millions of dollars doing it and you made donors happy and politic, politicians happy and the community happy. But behind the scenes we should say we… Read More
You know, and I’m not being critical, okay?… Read More
And it’s amazing the different stories you hear at the same institution, from the keeper to the director to the curator regarding their facilities. They all have different opinions. They all have, oh, this is very successful. And the keeper says, no, it’s not. So, and we did a huge… Read More
And a lot of zoos are coming in and going, oh, we wanna see your facility. It’s so great going, yeah, it’s wonderful. But let’s, let us also be honest with you and tell you what we would do all over again. Problem is we have a lot of zoos,… Read More
You know, I don’t, I don’t think zoos analyze their successes and their failures enough. Because zoos don’t fail. Zoo directors don’t fail. When we do it, we do it right. Okay. And don’t tell me I did it wrong because I just spent millions and millions of dollars doing… Read More
You know, I think a lot of zoos have spent a lot of money on what I call eye wash. Immersive experiences are so important to some zoos. You have, you know, you’re just, you’re, you’re now entering the tropics of whatever, or you’re entering this country or entering this… Read More
Did that, has that really been successful with connecting as much as it is doing an organized program with the kids to really learn more about, you know, gorillas, about any species as opposed to the expensive habitat that’s supposed to be resembling the wild?… Read More
And the phrase that one more time, please Mark, What has been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
What would you say has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to their visitors?… Read More
The biggest development, you know, zoos have made a real strong commitment about education programs and really trying to connect. Read More
Will we be able to reintroduce it?… Read More
He can reintroduce it, but it might get slaughtered because, because of, of, of, of the war happening in the country. So I think that’s one of the biggest problems is political unrest. Resources. I think there’s so many nations that are fighting to feed their people and take care… Read More
I mean, how many countries are at war?… Read More
I don’t know. Will we be able to save it?… Read More
You know, the o capi, you know, alone, it’s just, it’s, it’s range is so limited, you know, and it’s, and the war torn country and how many they’re in captivity. Read More
So will we ever really be successful reintroducing?… Read More