Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 45
And you said zoos are important to developing countries?… Read More
And you said zoos are important to developing countries?… Read More
We say on, you say I’m not, Which we saw yesterday and you said on Ger O-N-A-G-E-R? Yes. But if it starts with O we pronounce it O Ah Onga. Okay, I’m sorry. No, no, no. Okay. So, and we got that from them. It was our ambition to have… Read More
So I visited him, we became friends and we got, do you say owner?… Read More
Yes, with the Tehran Zoo, which was led by a German former animal, not keeper, but dealer. He was engaged by Hagenbeck. Read More
Yes. Or the Kabul Zoo?… Read More
And did you, I at that time when you were a scientific advisor, did you deal with other zoos to bring in animals?… Read More
I published a paper how to run a zoo in a development country from all sides of economics and Phil Philosophical. Read More
During this time, were you starting to think about a management philosophy for a zoo?… Read More
’cause you were kind of involved with this zoo. Were you thinking?… Read More
So, and then I say said to me, they have half a million dollar what want they to do with it?… Read More
It is the best chance to build up the zoo. And I traveled immediately to, to Afghanistan with old pictures, with plans, what I had and offered to build up the zoo for half a million dollars. But there were others who had the hand on the money in particular… Read More
Can you talk about in Afghanistan, the wars and how this affected the zoo yourself and the welfare of the animals?… Read More
And he shot him in the face. So he was blind. And meanwhile he was so old and he was so fragile and he was practically one of the few animals which had survived. And when the international army conquered Afghanistan, after the Taliban had been all in the course… Read More
Well, I left the country before all struggle started and the occupation by the Soviet Union. And after that, the tax, the war, even among the mujahideen, the different, you know, people fighting for their freedom and independence. So I, in that time, I didn’t have any contact there. But… Read More
What problems did you encounter at the zoo as you were advising them and how did you solve some of them?… Read More
How did we, – What problems did you find at the Cabo Zoo when you were advising them and how were you able to help solve them?… Read More
Yes, the administration in Afghanistan is very complicated and it’s very foreign, foreigner, even impossible to handle. But I, from the university as an advisor, was free to do what I wanted. The general expenses for food and salary was done by the university. Every money which came in at… Read More
What would you say was the importance of the Ka zoo?… Read More
It is a good example why zoos in these developing men developing countries need zoos even more than we in Europe and the, and the United States, of course, the people have heard about snow, Leos have heard about bacterial pity, about cheetah, et cetera, but they never saw one… Read More
Well, first of all, until then, there were only very few people allowed to go to the Palma. This was of course, a part of Afghanistan, but it was ruled by Kgi Han. And he communicated directly with the Afghan king on the same level, you know, and I had… Read More