Lisa Stevens Quotations

We're seeing a cultural shift, ... People don't feel that 'used' is a dirty word anymore. Over 78% of buyers on Abebooks.com say they'd be thrilled to receive a used book as a gift.

The pandas are ready. I'm certain the visitors are ready. There's going to be a lot of fun to be had around the panda house.

Some days he gets up really early, around four or five in the morning, and starts playing like crazy, climbing on his mother, climbing on the rocks,

Right now, I'm paying overtime because he's not on our schedule. On Saturday, a keeper didn't leave until 9:30 p.m. because he didn't come down (from the tree) until 8:30 p.m.

I don't even want to think about it.

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

He spends all his day in a tree. He comes down for short periods to play and nurse.

He is part of a major breeding program to maintain a healthy population of this endangered species in captivity. At 2 years of age, decisions will be made on where he should go to benefit the breeding population.

Pandas do communicate a lot of information by scent marking and leaving their scent on an object.

We worked hard to find alternative means to keep these titles viable, including moving them to other companies. However, our efforts ultimately met with no success. We felt that it was time to fold our hand and let our customers know the final outcome.

This was really positive for us, ... She's interested enough in us and food that we can distract her.

Some females don't move their cubs at all, ... We may try moving the cub ourselves to see how she reacts.

Then other mornings, he sleeps in. So it's very variable.

They will spend a lot more time together. This kind of socialization is very important ... for breeding.

I'm much more concerned about visitors. The animals are seeking cool places and are inactive. The visitors are out here walking around in this heat. So we really are more concerned about them and want them to be very careful about taking time to cool off.

His little eyes are open, and he can see what's going on,

He's showing us each day that he's more and more of a little bear cub.

He's just a fantastic little bear. He's climbing all over his cage.