It’s, it’s okay from a, from a, from an animal keeper’s perspective, it’s this desire to wrap their creatures. That they’re responsible for up in cotton wool to protect ’em from any possible distress. Not understanding how animals tick, being overly emotional when things go terribly wrong. What, what the,… Read More
Many of them are transient. They come from out with the zoo community. They do a few years, one or two do good work, quite a few cause problems, and then leave and go back to the real world for want of a better term. So the ones that impress… Read More
Their style, their job responsibilities?… Read More
Do we still need zoos? Oh God, yes. If, if anything, they are more important and primarily because of their conservation role and in general, usually their potential conservation role rather than their actual conservation role in most many cases. But yeah, more important than ever. And you, you’ve had… Read More
What observations have you made about today’s zoo directors?… Read More
The game into the zoo game, the zoo profession breaking in, which has always been hard for everybody, you know, landing that first zoo job. So yeah, coming into the game is what we do. Read More
Do we still need zoos?… Read More
I mean, all right. You know, I can be a little bit old school when it come. I mean, I love old urban zoos. Usually they have very large animal collections, which is obviously fascinating. They also have really interesting architecture, which is went well. I was at the, the,… Read More
And I hadn’t been to Berlin for a long time. And so I, I arrived a couple of days early and I did both Zoo Berlin and Berlin Tear Park, the two Berlin Zoos over the couple of days. And it was just, it’s like zoological mecca, you know, just… Read More
What does that mean?… Read More
Are there zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
Why do you admire them and where are they?… Read More
What would you say is your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
I think, I think there’s, I think there’s two from an impactful point of view, being part of the small group that saved London Zoo from closure and being part of the small group that got the UK National Zookeeper course started. So saving a zoological icon and zookeeper education,… Read More
You wanted a world first breeding that that was the tick that was, that you wanted. And you know, I managed one or two over the years, either global or national first breedings. And for me that was, that was the buzz to have been able to have a crack… Read More
And you know, it’s the side of training that impresses the hell outta me When I was a keeper, what did you want to achieve?… Read More
Which seems to have historically been the problem. And if we started to run into a, a difficulties or a particular individual and stop feeding, we could just re-release it again within the zoo. And so, you know, that for me was the doing zoo firsts. Read More
You would talk to young keepers today and it’s like, you know, you know what, what do you want to achieve?… Read More
Or I want to get, you know, this animal or that animal to, to train it for manual injection, which is a really cool thing. Read More
And it seemed to me that right, we’re in the ideal situation to be able to experiment with how do we keep these things in captivity?… Read More