There’s one colony of snow cranes, which usually crossed Afghanistan twice, and there was a resting place called Abe, somewhere far away in the desert. And one day I must say that I visited this Abe each month, once each month to count the bird species. And at one of… Read More
The academic world is not much interested in zoo. So if you make your your lectures on your own, you get the students, you can tell them what Zeus are about and what they want. And it was a chance for me to re Reid a lot of scholars, I… Read More
Why in was it important for you to start lectures at the zoo?… Read More
Can you relate your story of the snow crane and its symbolism to you?… Read More
And if you visited other, were you taking back things that you’d seen to cologne to apply?… Read More
Yes, of course. The, the wonderful thing in this job is that this is an international community and you have an international organization of zoo za and you join or attend conferences and you come to Japan, to Australia, to America, of course. And each time I took some days… Read More
And did the job allow you to travel to see other zoos?… Read More
The field aspect, I’m not quite sure, but at least we were one of the first to be involved in field projects and the first was to provide the horse lion submarine. Read More
All men, Not only, not all, all of them, but about 90%. And every year we, we, we advertised the position of the, what do we call the learning animal keeper. And we took at least two females to two to three males. And by the way, by the time… Read More
Did you start the conservation on an international level?… Read More
Did you start the conservation things, these programs when you were director?… Read More
Were they all men? Were there women keepers?… Read More
If not, when did women keepers start at the zoo when you were here?… Read More
Were the employees at the Colon Zoo, were they diverse?… Read More
Sometimes I met very nice people to some of which I today still have contacts. Read More
Yes, yes. There’s a long board of sponsors in the place where yesterday were, I don’t know how many hundred of people who sponsored the elephant house with different sized sums. Read More
Did you enjoy fundraising?… Read More
But in the end it, it ended in an architect in which I was very satisfied because it, if I would have an architect from Ugal, it would little be different to communicate with him. Read More
Were you involved in any way in the fundraising for this?… Read More
This is not possible. So they agreed on a new project, they agreed on the large project, which is only also very costly and insulting. We had first to collect our own ideas and I took one expert on Asian elephants in Germany, Fred Cook, he has spent his life… Read More