Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 393
You have said that you, that the Bronx Zoo, in your opinion, defined what zoos are about. Read More
You have said that you, that the Bronx Zoo, in your opinion, defined what zoos are about. Read More
Can you tell me about what you meant?… Read More
The first four elephants we got came from Emmen, which is a small city with a wonderful large zoo. And this was a family group, two males and two offsprings. This were the force. And they came from a zoo which kept the elephants hands off or ProTrac contact. And… Read More
But this was done very secretly, very smoothly. The public didn’t know about it. All of a sudden these animals were here and they came, the Thailand animals came with their, what do you say, keepers to present us these elephants. And they had a certain ceremony to say goodbye… Read More
It helped at oil, it happened at night and we just observed it silently from the balcony to the birth of the elephant. This was wonderful. Since then, I think 10 or 12, I forgot the number elephants have born here. So this was the most success, successful marine program… Read More
To begin with planning, designing the exhibit we had, we had to make a pan european com competition and there we had 1500 proposals of people who just knew were is the end and was the head of the elephant, no idea of Jews. They just applied. And in the… Read More
Yes. Can you talk about its evolution from your beginning idea about the exhibition of elephants and trying to now make it a reality and the difficulty in picking a design and all the things that you as director had to go through to bring it to completion?… Read More
Elephant 2005 opened, we opened the exhibit You had in in let’s follow in doing the elephant building. You had many difficulties to overcome in putting it together. Read More
Well, the one I wanted to do in the end was the Hippo Aquarium, which my successor was successful with. Read More
And what would you say during your time was your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
Hmm. Hardly to say because everything I did was so su successful that I had no reason to, I mean to step back or to think different ways. So if it was so successful, you must have been a good zoo director. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I… Read More
Are there any programs or exhibits you would’ve done during your tenure as zoo director that just didn’t happen?… Read More
If you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
This was the beginning of the EEPs and the organization of course evolved. So we had a committee on breeding on the eps. We had committee on veterinarian problems on research later on, on helping substandard zoo in Eastern Europe and of course in committee on on conservation. So now… Read More
So this was the start, November 85 after some time. So, and this was made without any association and we, in the beginning we avoided to found an association because when we did this, we were, we excluded automatically all Zeus beyond the iron curl. And so we had them… Read More
And, but this was mainly for the purpose of defending ourselves at the European Parliament and the European Commission. After the turn, what, what we say when the Berlin War was stumbled and GNO came from the Soviet Union and the Soviet block almost collapsed in a few, in a… Read More
Yeah, what, what can I say else?… Read More
And much to my astonishment, I was the only German. This was very embarrassing I found. So I took the initiative and in the same year invited all German, not only all German again, all European BARZA members and all German Jew directors in a conference in here in Cologne. Read More
Well, when I came into the zoo world, the Americans just had founded SSP 82 and they presented this program at the ZA at that time called IUDG. And of course we wanted to do this in the same way. But the problem is mo at that time there was… Read More
How did you manage to do that?… Read More