They can’t manage the size of herds that you can in somewhere like the Wilds or San Diego Safari Park, whatever it’s called these days that you know, that a an urban zoo cannot. But an urban zoo can also do stuff that a large acreage park is usually not… Read More
Are you concerned about the zoos and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
This, this is the, the, the change in species emphasis that there should be. So having managed, albeit a non-African a a northern hemisphere cold weather climate Safari Park and the Highland Wildlife Park, it was, you know, looking at, okay, this you can do, you don’t need to follow… Read More
So rocked up at the gate, explained who I was, they were brilliant. Oh, right, yeah, of course. Come on in, free of charge, on you go. And came in, and to my surprise, I saw, I, I saw a number of standard safari park species, you know, plain zebra,… Read More
That’s, that’s a really interesting one. In as much as when safari parks were first established and the, the UK was kind of the one, one of the original centers of the whole idea, primarily through via the Chipperfield Circus family. Even the, the Auntie Z lot said, okay, this… Read More
I thought, tell you what, shall we go and have a look?… Read More
And we were driving past, or we’d saw the signs for West Midland Safari Park and it was a lovely day. We were, we had plenty of time on our hands. Read More
Do you think that the safari park model is viable for zoo in the future?… Read More
Oh, well, you know, hopefully I’ll be working in the field, you know, I, you know, in the wild. And it’s like, well then bugger off out to the wild and work out there. You know, if you’re not interested in zoos, if you’re not, if, if, if they are… Read More
And you know, there are, are, you know, people that I’ve met working in zoos and you ask them about, okay, right, you know, what do you see yourself in five years?… Read More
Why Not necessarily in as much as, right, what, what is your interest in wildlife?… Read More
I’m a, I mean, you know, one that I’ve already touched on and that’s, you know, publish, publish, publish. You know, just get, you know, when you achieve something or even more importantly when you, when you screw up, when it goes wrong, publish that too. I remember standing at… Read More
Would you recommend Zoo Aquarium feel to a young person with sincere interest in wildlife today?… Read More
What was the most important piece of advice you received that stayed with you throughout the years?… Read More
They’re just, they’re just not a problem. Obviously when they’re a must, you know, that’s a, a different situation. But they need space, they need other elephants. They need to be able to breed from a, a physical health point of view. Females that, you know, have not calfed by… Read More
Correct. I think, I mean, one of these species where space is of vital importance, but there was a, there was a paper that was published in an old issue of international Zulus. And it was the, the most important enrichment item for elephants is other elephants. So keeping them… Read More
In your professional opinion, what’s your view regarding zoo’s, maintaining elephants and how it should be done?… Read More
A lot of zoos are really bad at letting their, the local population around them know about something that that’s happening that might, you know, be okay, right?… Read More
We’re, we’re, we’re doing this thing, we’re gonna have to have this road closed off. But if you come from this particular, you know, zip code or postcode area, you know, you can get in for, you know, half price on this day or whatever, you know, a a pretty… Read More
How important do you think community support is and do you think a zoo can survive without it?… Read More