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Interview with Kenton Lint, 1984

 

1984-03-21

 

 

This transcript of two different sessions with Lint is preceded here by a reproduction of his obituary from the San Diego Union-Tribune dated 12/11/1992. Kenton Lint began his career at the San Diego Zoo in 1936 as Assistant Curator of Birds, and was Curator of Birds from 1948-1976, after which he became Curator Emeritus. Under his direction, the zoo's ornithology department established more than 400 bird breeding records of birds in captivity, and assembled the largest collection of parrots and parrotlike birds in history. Lint received the 1965 Bean Award of the American Association of Zoological Parks & Aquariums for the notable first hatching of the Thick-billed Parrot. In 1976, he received the Zoo's Gold Conservation Medal, and later was elected to the Avicultural Hall of Fame.
Lint discusses his family background, employment history, and early memories of the Zoo.

Topics include: his parents' and siblings' background; past jobs, including raising and dressing 500 squabs a week for restaurants in Tulsa while in college; his studies in poultry husbandry and animal husbandry; how he met his wife Alice Lint and her work accompanying him on expeditions; his first work with the Zoo on mammals (cats and bears); first impressions and early memories of the Zoo; the donations of Ellen Scripps to the Zoo; some of the early zoo keepers; how they dealt with financial difficulties in the early days; memories of former Zoo directors Belle Benchley and Charles Schroeder; working conditions and long hours at the Zoo in the days before labor unions; Karl Koch, the Curator of Birds before Lint, and his forming the nucleus of the Zoo's bird collection; collecting trips and the specimens brought back, including hummingbirds, Bali Mynahs, and proboscis monkeys; and descriptions of trips abroad to Asia, South America, and Africa.

San Diego Zoo; Kenton Lint; Edmund Bajet; Ornithology; Zoo curators; Zoo animal collection; Breeding birds; Poultry husbandry; Animal husbandry; Alice Marie Lint; San Diego Zoo; Belle Benchley; Charles Schroeder; Karl Koch; Interviews; Oral histories; Children's zoo; Bottle feeding zoo animals; Roland Lint; Incubators; Jim Lyon; Lyon Electric Company; Bronx Zoo; Charlie Smith; Zookeepers; Ralph Virden; Ellen Browning Scripps; Andean condors; Works Projects Administration; Bob Jarbo; Charles Faust Edalee Harwell; Zoonooz (publication); Ken Scott; Kate Sessions; Hagenbeck Zoo; World War II; Skyfari; Cost of San Diego Zoo tickets; Zoorama (television program); George Pournelle; Mammologists; Charles "Chuck" Shaw; Clyde Perkins; Karl Koch; Allan Hancock; Si Perkins; Selig Zoo; Walkthrough aviaries; Santa Theresa Museum of National History; Augusto Ruschi; Proboscis monkeys; Bali mynahs; Brookfield Zoo; Hoopoes; Fairy bluebirds; Hummingbirds; Budgirigars; Cockatiels

 

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Copyright © 1990 Zoological Society of San Diego, and San Diego State University Library

 

 

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keywords continued from transcript: Golden-shouldered parrots; Kookaburra; Edward Hallstrom; Tawny Frogmouths; Ground cuckoos; Edward Marshall Boehm; James "Jim" Dolan; Helmi Osman; Ken Stott; Edalee Harwell; Edna Heublein; Marjorie Shaw; Martin Johnson; Osa Johnson; Henry Cramer; Cramer Bakery; American Pheasant and Waterfowl Society; International Waterfowl Association; Explorer's Club; American Ornithologists Union; Cooper Ornithological Society; Jean Delacour; Joan of Arc; Wild Animal Park; San Diego Zoo Safari Park; Catskill Game Farm; Strike actions; American Game Bird Breeder's Cooperative Federation; Edward H. Beam Award; American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums; Finch Society of San Diego County; North County Avicultural Society; Bill Toone; California condors; Amazon rain forests; Sea World; Harry "Doctor Harry" Wegeforth; Great Depression; Art Risser; Augie Campos; Charles Bieler; Kurt Benirschke; Frozen Zoo; Florida sandhill cranes; Get directions, reviews and information for San Diego Zoo Hospital; Whooping Crane Association

 

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