And then we went to the museum in natural history and I talked about that and, and the Bronx Zoo. So I was fascinated. So I’m in seventh grade in junior high, and they call it middle school now, I guess. And you have guidance counselors. And the guidance counselor… Read More
Ricky, what do you wanna do?… Read More
Just dogs. And my mom took care of ’em more than I did. I, I wasn’t the kid that went out there. I, and picked up everything and collected everything. I was fascinated with it. But again, a second grade, I think it started there. There’s not one moment in… Read More
Were animals part of your life?… Read More
And that worked out really well. I became captain of the wrestling team and there, there were things I did, you know, like that. And being the resident advisor at Cornell for two years, that really helped my people skills quite a bit. And you mentioned it, but tell us… Read More
My mom was just incredible. My dad was typical Italian dad, you know, always, always, always busting my balls because that’s what Italian dads did. And I was an only child, so I, I took the brunt of everything. So I was a little closer to my mother, which made… Read More
Winnie and Tony Barongi. Winnie or Winifred. My mother was from German and Polish parents, and who died way before I was born and was born in New York City and met my father in, I think, junior high. And then they went out in high school. She was very… Read More
And who were your parents? What did they do?… Read More
Well, my name is Rick Barongi, although my mother named me Roderick because she liked Rick, but she thought Richard was too common. So I had this name Roderick, which I hated when I was young, but I’m Rick Barongi. I was born May 25th, 1952 in Flushing Hospital in… Read More
My legacy is Peterman the chimpanzee, as you know. And well, I would prefer that people think of me as a good zoo director. Read More
How would you like to be Remembered?… Read More
And how would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More
I can say that I liked it very much, that I was very happy that they selected me as a zoo director and I did my best to do the job. And this was very satisfying. Read More
What do you know about that profession that you’ve given so much of your life to What’s, what’s, what do you think about when you think about all the time you’ve spent as zoo director Within This zoo field?… Read More
So what can you, do you think that you may know about the profession that you’ve been in, that you’ve given many years of your life?… Read More
There are several of them in England. Almost all the zoos are privately owned. Only I think London, which is owned by a society and not by the city in the way, in that way. And they do all of them, not all of them, but most of them do… Read More
I’m thinking of White Oak Conservation Center and others that are owned privately who have money. And example you mentioned is the Middle East, where private owners have spent lots of money. Yeah. And bought talent. Yeah. To run a zoo In Germany. We have Hagenbeck in Hamburg, which is… Read More
Well continue the conservation line. This is the main purpose of zoos nowadays. Read More
What are your thoughts about people with money who own private zoos and do you believe those that private zoos will survive the length of time that municipal zoos have?… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquariums staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More