Knowing that I get to see it cut up. My dad, I didn’t realize how frustrating it was for him ‘cos here he is trying to save things and I’m getting excited about things dying, but he was basically the full-time vet for about a year and a half when… Read More
Interestingly enough, my father was the contract veterinarian for what was then called the Portland Zoo. And he actually helped start the zoological society there, the friends group, but he did his work out there in the evening. So I would go out as a four and five year old… Read More
And so I’d take the train in. It was five bucks to Kansas City and spend the weekend at the zoo. Now back up a little, because you went to Washington, we’ll talk later in detail, but you went to Washington, DC because your father, ‘cos you were exposed to… Read More
Your father went to Washington, why?… Read More
Mark Crandall Reed. I was born in Portland, Oregon on November 28th, 1949, and I was in the zoo profession for about 44 years. And actually I was the executive director of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society was the official title, which operated the zoo for the county. Read More
Now you have a unique kind of history, but when you were growing up, what zoos were you exposed to?… Read More
The profession is filled with individuals who have a passion and a love for what they’re doing, most of them. Some of them nowadays that are getting involved, I’m not sure why they’re getting involved at all. I don’t know if it’s because they think it’s important for their ego… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
Just that I wanted to keep moving forward instead of going backwards. Read More
Why can’t we get knowledgeable people to do this and stop the mass extinction that’s going on?… Read More
Now, this encompass a lot of discussions, because is then you’re gonna have to start talking about birth control, population growth, cultural issues, religious issues. I mean, there wouldn’t be any wars today if we didn’t have lines in the sand in religion. We could better take care of each… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
And, of course, some of them were millions and millions and millions of years ago, but they were caused mostly by some cataclysmic effect, or catastrophic effect. This sixth extinction that we’re in the midst of right now is being caused by people because there’s too many people and what… Read More
And you look at the animals that are gone, and now you’re looking at some of the animals that are on the edge and going away. We’re losing lots of species every day. You know, we’re losing things like bumblebees and we’re losing bats. And we’re and losing not just… Read More
And why can’t we go that way?… Read More
So there a lot of good places out there. And there’s a beautiful place of all, I went to a zoo outside of Brussels, Belgium just recently called Pairi Daiza. And it’s the biggest and most fantastic zoo I’ve ever seen. They have panda bears, and the orangutan exhibit is… Read More
‘Cause I know that people want to change it, they just don’t have the either the resources or the financial way to move forward. And some way along the line, we gotta move that forward, or just find other homes for those animals so we don’t have that side of… Read More
Any suggestions to those young professionals in the field on how to make a difference?… Read More
I think that the only advice I give people nowadays is get the truth, use the truth, and keep moving it forward because people are lazy nowadays sometimes and half the information is okay, half a job is okay. Not doing the thing 100% isn’t worth it to me. So… Read More
And if there is, why?… Read More