Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 507
What were you up against?… Read More
What were you up against?… Read More
Well, you’re really first of all– (indistinct) Well, no, you have to have some space. If you do a proper wildlife park that’s got combines adventure with education. Oh, by the way, after the lions follow you and get a food reward, a bear come out of a tree over… Read More
And also, how do you raise the money within the limits of the city or the foundations that you have access to?… Read More
Right now I’ve had to go there some big plantations around Albany, Georgia, and I have set the stage so that they’re willing to donate, but unless I have the control, personally, if I tell them I wanna raise money for, let’s say one of my mobile exercise tunnels for… Read More
Well, I never have had the never been in the catbird seat. The only way I can be in the catbird seat is to raise the money myself to build something there. And I did that with a oddly enough with a Birds of Prey park, one of the first… Read More
But at the one in Albany, Georgia that I built, I’ve got a holding area. It’s up on stilts with a couple of a nighttime holding area and also preparation of food. But then I have another cabin on top of that. And that’s where the eagle flies out of… Read More
I have another flight cage that’s 150 feet long for bald eagles. And you can see them come right down to you ’cause I have a bleacher inside of the flight cage. People could sit there and see a bald eagle come down and grab a fish out of the… Read More
“This looks like a safari in Africa you know.” Well, the people don’t know it, but as you leave, the lions have become accustomed to jumping up and following you, running after you, because they know they’re gonna get a food reward 50 yards down the trail. But you gotta… Read More
And you can show that animal with a natural background and give the animal the right to have space and green grass, and a place to live in like the one that came from. Read More
Was this concept that (indistinct) that you’ve talked about enabled?… Read More
Did you do it?… Read More
And also (chuckles) sometimes they’re off where you can’t even see them when he goes through a through, and it’s also dangerous. You can’t have people open a window in a car. It happened at quite a few different parks. But in my experience, I don’t have a paved roads,… Read More
And you drive up and people in the mobile cage say, “Hey, is this like it is in Africa?… Read More
I learned of all places, I learned on the Johnny Carson Show. I probably knew this before that, but the key to knowledge is often being put into a unpredictable situation where there is suspense. Unpredictability, any good book, any good Hollywood movie, once you get into an unpredictable story,… Read More
And they would say, what was that animal you had called a binturong that was from the ecosystem in Indonesia?… Read More
They said, that what a strange animal was. They probably had no knowledge of wildlife, but if they saw Johnny in an unpredictable situation where it might have crawled on his head and put his big tail around his face, that hooked them. They remembered all of that, because it… Read More
It would be an introduction to what it would be like if you went to Africa. So a commercial tour group like that safari group thought that would be great ’cause they could actually show people what it’s like. Now, in the safari park and around the tented safari camp,… Read More
And so I had the whole thing design. So it was adventure. Read More
Now, here’s the reason it’s adventure, if you have people in a mobile cage and you have large enough areas to the fences are all hidden, okay?… Read More
You can condition the wildlife to come over close to the mobile cage where the people are. If you have Hoofstock, the sides of the mobile cage can be open. They don’t have to be closed. But when you go in with a predator, the sides of the cage and… Read More