Interview 366 – Caption Index: 662
So that’s, I think, a very good success story. Read More
So that’s, I think, a very good success story. Read More
Did anybody follow in your footsteps in your family in the zoo profession?… Read More
And Bonobo was a special case. From the beginning on, our way to hand-rear was to have some apes half a year at home because the first half year, they are carried around. And that is an important point. My wife really had to carry the gorillas and orangutans around… Read More
And this we reached with almost all animals. Of course, with smaller monkeys, as the wooly monkeys and so on, this was much faster reach. And the Bonobo in Frankfurt was a very special case. Her mother died during the night she gave birth. And the young one, we have… Read More
And we thought, wonderful, that’s great, we’ll leave it there. But, of course, the keeper would have had to bottle feed it and this animal was not trained to come to the fence. And our keeper tried and tried for hours and didn’t succeed. And so we decided, we are… Read More
Did you ever take animals home to care for them?… Read More
In Zurich, my wife raised 13 non-human primates, starting from capuchin and wooly monkeys up to orangutans and gibbons and gorillas. And that’s very typical. In Frankfurt, during the 14 years, there were only two left, one capuchin and one Bonobo. Because, first of all, through a necessity to hand-rear… Read More
So it depends very much what is the view and vision of politicians. Read More
Are they locally narrow-minded or just on the city or better?… Read More
And my education of the politicians obviously was not good enough. Read More
Well, I have had three superior and the one in the middle really helped me whenever he could. Time my three, the one that appointed me and was fired by her party and then the one with whom I did most of the new constructions and then the one that… Read More
Well, I may say Coca-Cola or Ford or anything. But none appeared with enough money to rename the zoo. And there was once a situation where the land hesha really tried or considered to pay part of it. But the two politicians that were involved said Frankfurt Zoo is no… Read More
Did politicians ever play a role in the success of the zoo?… Read More
Of raising money or getting government money for the zoo or in some way using their office to help the zoo?… Read More
The Frankfurt Zoo Society has a board of about 12 members or so. Read More
Were they ever asked or required to help raise money for the zoo?… Read More
Unfortunately, the board members of Frankfurt Zoological Society always considered the organization just for conservation. And that was a very difficult situation for me. Now you had told us the story of the Lord Mayor. Read More
Did the Frankfurt Zoo have a board of directors?… Read More
In Frankfurt, I have had just one superior, which was the head of the Cultural Department, no board at all. Read More
Was the Frankfurt Zoo Society, they had a board?… Read More