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Did it survive the test of time?… Read More

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Let’s talk about the development of an exhibit called World of Darkness, your initial vision of it, dealing with the board, getting the funds, how did the public receive it?… Read More

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Getting animals, deciding what they would be?… Read More

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How did you bring the various thinkers in and the various people who were going to help?… Read More

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I remember I discussed this with Congo at length, with the exhibits, people, the curators, vets, everybody. I can discuss it again if you’d like, but it’s the same story. Okay. number nine. Okay. (indistinct) answer. Read More

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What was involved from maybe something, an idea you had seen or carried through to, (indistinct)?… Read More

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I don’t understand what you’re saying, Mark, what animal themes. I want us to talk about Congo specifically, but when you were thinking about the World of Birds, in a sense of a theme that you were going to do, what was the process then after you came up with,… Read More

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And it works. You developed animal themes at the zoo. Read More

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Could you take us kind of through the process of how did this come about the process?… Read More

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When I went to the Bronx Zoo, it was like the old business about Boston, about the cabbits only speaking to God. And at the zoo, curators, there was a definite chasm between the curators and the veterinarians, not that there were very many of either. So I immediately started… Read More

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The recorders, had to pass out a weekly record sheet that showed every single acquisition or birth, every single death, the curators and the veterinarians were expected to talk about any instance of illness or inappropriate behavior on the part of the animals, not the visitors. And this made a… Read More

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Can we do this?… Read More

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Can we get the curators and the veterinarians to work more closely together?… Read More

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Do we wish to sustain this particular species, do we have a responsibility to bring in another species?… Read More

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The Sheboygan Zoo wants us to make available a young female of this species. Read More

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When you became director, how you talk about animals, how did you change the animal handling?… Read More

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What were the challenges and problems when you first came in, as we’ve talked, transferring medical attention, things like that. When I became director at the Bronx Zoo, I was fortunate in that the zoo had had excellent veterinarians, but the zoo’s veterinary facilities were antiquated and we all wanted… Read More

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I’d like to take a break. Okay. Read More

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Why did I begin writing an increasing proportion of papers concerned with wildlife conservation as time went on?… Read More

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I suppose we’d have to say it’s the animal’s fault. They began getting rarer, and rarer. Conservation became more and more of a concern in our world. So it was natural that my focus would turn from the individual animal to the survival of animals. More a change from how… Read More