This is also amazing. This was Ant Coolman. He was a spider specialist. He came from the university, he had founded the zoo in Kabul and then he was a director, the head of the Department of Zoology in Ro, not in Rostock, in K in the north of Germany. Read More
And who did you replace, who was the director before you?… Read More
And what prompted you to say I want to leave university teaching and go be the head of a zoo?… Read More
Practically, I was my, my term at the university ended with my rehabilitation and I had to look for a job and I still keep a file of applications in my home in universities and also zoos, which originally had me my wish to work in a zoo. So this… Read More
And this was mainly my part, but I was involved also in research project field projects in which is in nowadays, what do you call it now, the upper, it was named Zo Boso. There was one successful project run by the Americans, by the way, in Tonga, Tanzania there,… Read More
And these were mostly the countries which had colonies, France, Belgium, England, red Berlin, not in America, there was nobody at that time. So they didn’t have any relation to have to to ies. So I started a new breeding of ies. We had to self-sustaining colony of IES for… Read More
Yes. My prof professor, well he actually asked me to work on these ies, he was one of the first entomologists working with isotopes, you know, radioisotopes. And he marked food and looked how it spread in a colony of ants, et cetera. And he gave courses even for the… Read More
Can you tell me about your research and your great interest in the Siti fly?… Read More
And you said zoos are important to developing countries?… Read More
Yes. Because it’s somewhere for people to go. Yeah. So they learn to know their own fauna and they don’t have any chance on their own to go to the wild and see bits or a mountain goats or Marco or whatever. Marco Polo. And you left Afghanistan because your… Read More
So I visited him, we became friends and we got, do you say owner?… Read More
We say on, you say I’m not, Which we saw yesterday and you said on Ger O-N-A-G-E-R? Yes. But if it starts with O we pronounce it O Ah Onga. Okay, I’m sorry. No, no, no. Okay. So, and we got that from them. It was our ambition to have… Read More
Yes, with the Tehran Zoo, which was led by a German former animal, not keeper, but dealer. He was engaged by Hagenbeck. Read More
Yes. Or the Kabul Zoo?… Read More
I published a paper how to run a zoo in a development country from all sides of economics and Phil Philosophical. Read More
And did you, I at that time when you were a scientific advisor, did you deal with other zoos to bring in animals?… Read More
During this time, were you starting to think about a management philosophy for a zoo?… Read More
’cause you were kind of involved with this zoo. Were you thinking?… Read More
It is the best chance to build up the zoo. And I traveled immediately to, to Afghanistan with old pictures, with plans, what I had and offered to build up the zoo for half a million dollars. But there were others who had the hand on the money in particular… Read More
So, and then I say said to me, they have half a million dollar what want they to do with it?… Read More