You’re, you’re duty manager that day. You’ve been in the job 10 years, you’re now your weekend duty manager. The kid falls into the gorilla moat on your watch. How do you deal with it? And then, you know, and then people come up with what you, the answers you… Read More
How would you deal with it?… Read More
You mentioned a time factor. What do you mean This is alright to use, to use extreme examples, there are people that come into the zoo business with a qualification and they expect to do maybe three, four years as a zookeeper. And then they expect to be promoted rather… Read More
And then your learning curve levels off again until the next emergency, and it goes up. So when you’ve seen it go wrong enough times, when something goes wrong on your watch, small child falling into a gorilla moat, for example, you will be better prepared for managing that emergency. Read More
And I actually made a point of saying, you know, if your kid wants to go into the zoo business and they’re planning to do a zoology degree, mom, dad, don’t waste your money. That that is not the qualification they need. If they’re gonna go for a, a college… Read More
What qualifications do you need?… Read More
Absolutely not. So I did a, a career day here at London Zoo a couple years ago and was asked to come down and the, it was, and it was all about, okay, right, if you want to break into the, into the zoo business, you know how to go… Read More
Will it teach you how to look after animals in captivity?… Read More
Your standard three or four year zoology degree will prepare you not a jot for working in a zoo other than maybe you know how to do a bit of research. Maybe you know, how to more el lucidly put a paper together. Read More
No. Will you learn anything about the likely species you’ll be working with?… Read More
So we’ve got the funding to produce, basically what we want to do is scan in man and animal in the zoo and have it online free access. ’cause I, I’ve looked at buying copies now secondhand and it’s, you know, it’s a hundred pounds, 150 pounds, you know, so,… Read More
Yeah. Can you expand upon that?… Read More
Heger? And I invariably would get a rabbit in the headlights look from the interviewee who would start to sweat profusely ’cause they had no idea. And so then I started to expand the question and it was like, okay, let’s let, maybe that’s, maybe I’m being a bit unfair. Read More
You know, we get to question 12 or whatever and it was like, who was heine?… Read More
So he is vitally important and it pains me when it was one of the questions that I always had on my, when I was doing keeper interviews, right?… Read More
I mean, Haney, I mean, he was director of Burn Basel and Zurich in that order in Switzerland, hugely influential. I read his original work, wild Animals in Captivity, I think when I was 16 or 17 I think. And Man and Animal in the Zoo not long after. And… Read More
So, so important. And again, that we talked about wheels being reinvented, you know, a lot of those wheels were initially invented by Heger. Read More
What pains me?… Read More
I mean, one of my great regrets in life is I never actually met the man. Heine Heger is basically the individual who defined zoo biology. The, the science of managing a zoo and managing the animals in a zoo. I’ve his, you know, his seminal text man and animal… Read More
Number one, can you tell us who Heine Heger was?… Read More