Interview 11040 – Caption Index: 349
As you look back over the years, what do you think SeaWorld has done right, and then what could they have done better in dealing with PETA, the HSUS regarding the orcas?… Read More
As you look back over the years, what do you think SeaWorld has done right, and then what could they have done better in dealing with PETA, the HSUS regarding the orcas?… Read More
Why is say that important to you?… Read More
Well, I think it’s important because, again, it goes back to, if you’re playing a sport like rugby, you have to support each other to win. And if you don’t support, I don’t want you on the team. And so I support them simply because they work hard for their… Read More
Can you relate what SeaWorld and other marine mammal centers have done for the advancement of killer whale husbandry and the science of studying these animals?… Read More
All of the places that have held killer whales and cared for killer whales over the years have done a tremendous job of adding to the literature. We’ve, again, gone back to fill in those pieces of the puzzle that weren’t known. When we first started talking about killer whale… Read More
I don’t believe my management style has changed since the day I got in the fish house. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve probably lost patience a lot quicker. I’ve learned how to sort of mellow out a little bit now, but that was just simply because I would get frustrated… Read More
They wouldn’t ask, “Why are we doing this?… Read More
Why are we moving this animal?” Or, “Why should I give it this fish?” Or, “I can’t do that.” Or, what was worse, I’d hate it when somebody would say, “Well, we always do it this way.” And I’d say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don’t wanna hear that. That’s… Read More
Yeah, exactly. And then, at the corporate level, we had somebody that was sort of in constant in each one of those little buckets. They’re not little. So they would have dotted lines to everybody else at the parks. But it was a nice spiderweb, ’cause it worked well. Everybody… Read More
“Don’t sit at your desk, and don’t play with your computer. Read More
Go out and see the animals.” You spoke a little about it, but what would you say is your management style?… Read More
And does it change or stay the same?… Read More
As the chief officer, how many direct reports do you have?… Read More
We didn’t really have, I didn’t have a lot of direct reports. It was like seven or eight. Each park ran autonomously to a park general manager. So they had dotted lines from each park to me. So there was a VP of zoological operations at each park that had… Read More
Similar to what you had done?… Read More
It’s a good thing.” As the main animal person, do you become the spokesperson for SeaWorld in this area or is this left to public relations?… Read More
Or do they just lean on you for information?… Read More
Well they’d certainly lean on you for information in terms of… But I was usually the spokesperson. Julie Scardina also was our spokesperson. I’ll always kid Julie, Julie was beautiful and she was great with animals and she loved animals. And she still does. And she still works in conservation… Read More
And it made sense, simply because we were getting attacked again and again on the care of the animals. And I’m not a veterinarian. I’m certainly an experienced animal person, but we thought that that would be somewhat of a better front. And I don’t mean that in a demeaning… Read More
Most of the SeaWorld parks were somewhat the same. They had the same type of entities in it, or the same type of animal, the same type of… In the recent years, the parks have evolved into more family entertainment with roller coasters and other types of virtual realities and… Read More