From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2000:

Evansville mayor Russ Lloyd Jr. on April 4 obtained the resignations of 13- year Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden director Ron Young and assistant director Ted Grannan, a week after the zoo again failed to regain accreditation by the American Zoo Association. The AZA suspended the Mesker Park accreditation in 1998 for a variety of reasons, including failure to update and improve exhibits and allegedly engaging in improper wildlife transactions. Lloyd named as interim director retired local attorney Daniel J. McGinn, 50, a volunteer for Friends of the Mesker Park Zoo since February 1999.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2000:

AZA Zoo Alleged questionable dealings (Italics mean Alan Green alleged a deal without citing the year [and often, without stating how many animals were involved]; boldface means Green cited the year and number of animals; zoos identified in capital letters were involved in deals Green cites as dubious which appear to have been exposed earlier by others. If a zoo is identified in capital letters but not boldface, we were able to confirm transactions that Green mentioned without citing the date.)

Abilene Zoo: Allegedly sold animals to Jim Fouts post-1990.

AKRON ZOO: Allegedly “heaped primates” on Zoological Animal Exchange. (Admits selling 2 animals in 1992.)

Baltimore Zoo: Allegedly sold Thompson’s gazelle, rhino to Red McCombs.

Bergen County Zoo: Allegedly sold elk via Woods & Waters auction in 1995.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

SAN JOSE, Calif.––Responding to
a four-part probe of commerce involving former
zoo animals, published in February 1999
by San Jose Mercury-News reporter Linda
Goldston, the American Zoo Association has
halted member zoos’ dealings with the Little
Ponderosa Animal Farm and Auction in
Illinois, Goldston reported on May 28.
The AZA has also begun requiring a
review of animal transfer records as a condition
of accreditation renewal.
“However,” Goldston wrote, “officials
involved with the system for recording
surplus animal dispositions are refusing to
make updates of the information available to
the public,” and International Species
Information System executive director Nathan
R. Flesness demanded unsuccessfully that the
Mercury-News remove from its web site an
analysis of the ISIS animal transfer data during
the years 1982-1988.

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