Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 183
He, what do you say?… Read More
He, what do you say?… Read More
You were also involved with bearded vultures?… Read More
In insisted not to make one. He didn’t, didn’t need it for him. Animals were known from the nature. They did not belong to the zoo. They were known from the nature and we have to keep them at our best knowledge and experience, et cetera. So this was the… Read More
Yeah, this was my friend Dick Van Dam from Rotterdam. First he came and watched what we are building there and I said, we need some illa. We had, I think two or two and we want to build up a illa group. And two weeks later he came there… Read More
Talking about gorillas, what philosophy does the Gorilla Gina bring to mind and how you received her?… Read More
And that the times have changed that this would probably not happen anymore. Read More
Excited about it. And I didn’t know what comes on me when the film comes here. When the premier of the GOs GOs in the Beast were in Germany, they were in Cologne, I went to the pre premier and when the word Cologne Zoo came, the audience laughed. Look,… Read More
And I sat in the audience and all on a sudden the name of Colon Z was mentioned. Read More
And I was very, I mean, what do we say?… Read More
Yes, at This zoo, Yes, of course. In the sixties, cologne Zoo had an affiliation with a young country, Rwanda and NDIA advised them to build up national parks and they wanted to, well, to present the city of Cologne or the zoo present. And that were two borders wild… Read More
And if they don’t learn anything, why should we keep the anymore?… Read More
Were there mountain gorillas?… Read More
What would, what won’t you do? What won’t you be to achieve?… Read More
What should the people learn?… Read More
Really what is the purpose of it?… Read More
Hmm. Difficult to answer. I’m not a stamp collector. What used to be the zoo director in the old time. So I asked always myself, which is the purpose of this animal. And my guideline was Bill’s publication, how to exhibit a bull frog. You can do so much, you… Read More
Would you, could you name the one animal species which you consider to be the most significant that you acquired in your career?… Read More
I read everything about great Apes Go Really, and chimpanzees and I still have a long library with the literature on great apes. Afterwards we had other projects and in the, in the end it was largest projects, elephants. And of course I read everything about elephants to learn how… Read More
So I gave that up very, very soon. To the journalist, I say I am like a good family father who does not have favorites among his children. They are all in the same way, beloved and cared for. So there is no favorite. And they were satisfied by, by… Read More
Well, yes. Well this is the most put question by journalists, which is your favorite animal. And I never dare to say it, it is a dead fly. I lived 10 years with 30 flies. I know everything about it. There is nobody else, not in the world, but in… Read More