And and it’s with any animal. So you one animal’s be close, but you don’t wanna be far. So when they’re far, at least they’re in a nice area, hopefully they’re doing things. A lot of times animals aren’t doing anything. And pe I think people understand that I, you… Read More
And and that’s a wow, isn’t it?… Read More
Hire a good architect, I guess, I don’t know, pretty creative when we could, our elephant exhibit is a good example. Again, the architects sort of came out. We have two elephant Cleveland has two elephant exhibits and in in between them is, we call it the afro, an elephant… Read More
How did you try and achieve a wow impact in exhibit design?… Read More
So in a sense, an elephant, even if it’s behind a cable structure, 10 feet from you is a wow. And seeing the elephants in the barn is a wow because you can really see how big they are. You know, the old story we all tell about the little… Read More
In fact, there was, I just read an article today about a, a group that’s coming together to get more keepers involved in field conservation by not just this group but by listing all the opportunities keepers could have. Because there’s a lot of agencies that’ll take volunteers to help… Read More
He is not a, not causing any problem. And one of the keepers, one of our draft keeper in Cleveland went over there and she was really responsible for trying to keep the giraffe calm in the trucks because she’s a keeper so she knows giraffes and barns and stuff. Read More
But for the most part we spend a lot more money now and it’s for the last at least 10 years, it’s always been an important part of accreditation. Read More
What are you doing for field conservation?… Read More
I think we owe it to the animals that we keep. I don’t think we keep animals and zoos just for entertainment. I think we keep it for, for to have a nice time if that’s entertainment. But we also keep animals, our zoo for education and conservation. So I… Read More
Field conservation general. Let’s go general field conservation. Okay. I, I think the, the, the speed in which, no, not most so speed, but the amount of money we spend now, I think a ZA spends something like, what was it, it was over, I think it was close to… Read More
And now what are you talking about?… Read More
So yeah, Getting in conservation regarding cons, what worries you, but what gives you hope?… Read More
Like it’s a piece of nature. Realizing we don’t fool anybody with naturalistic exhibits. But I think it makes us feel better. I also think it has the animals feel better than in a concrete box. You remember from Lincoln Park to bathroom style cages we had that didn’t make… Read More
I, I don’t think so. I think you gotta have a nice looking thing. It it’s large enough and diverse enough for, for, for the animals. And we’ve come up with some interesting things. I know in the new bear exhibit in Cleveland, they have poles that the animals can… Read More
Well, I think the exhibits are better. Again, not everybody’s like me, but I like a story. You gotta tell a story about an animal and you do that through good exhibitory graphics is only a minor help, but you could have other types of hands-on type learning to, to… Read More
I suppose so. I think it has to do with who they are. You know, I think it came from interest. I think the choice of the species, as I understand it probably came from the interest of the curators and at the, at the beginning directors, but mostly curators. Read More
What, what would you say is the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collections to visitors?… Read More
Has that met with what you envisioned in these?… Read More
Is maybe the questions we also need to be asked at the same time. Now we’re talking about different animal species. In your opinion, does the selection that the American, the association, a CA association of Zeus and Aquariums decided for their species of surviv program, those species which they… Read More