This is all I’ve ever wanted to do. I mean, since I was the, as as far back as I can remember before I even went to primary school zoos, what held a, a unique fascination for me. What, what one thing that, that was really cool is that a… Read More
And the it penny dropped, the first polar bears I ever saw was a kid, as a kid, as a would’ve been, well from memory, a 4-year-old were the first polar bears I worked with as a zookeeper, obviously quite a long lived species. And so yeah, Jim and Queenie,… Read More
Why do you say that you could not do another type of job?… Read More
Hopefully their country site that they’re focusing on will be able to take up the slack. But every, everything is temporary. You know, sometimes it might last 200 years, sometimes it might last 30. You just take advantage of whatever resources you have at the time. Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
I think, I think the probable answer is in the grand scheme of things, maybe not the number of occasions where the, the children of the founder no longer have an interest in maintaining the collection. Has it, you know, if it’s maybe developed into some form of a trust,… Read More
So you, you, you own an inverted commas that little bit of the wild world, that’s what you, you focus on. And we talk about establishing, you know, breeding programs for this species or that species in, in western zoos in Europe or in North America or Australasia. It’s a… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
There are Bronx in Amba, I believe. So there, there are these examples where the zoo or the zoological society has developed a long-term presence and relationship, and I think more and more zoos need to do this. Read More
What direction do you think will help ’em stay relevant?… Read More
I mean, we’re, I, I mean, I think they will, as I’ve said, you know, they will become even more and more important and if they really, if they start to really buy into their, the conservation role that they can play, you know, both in what they do on… Read More
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
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
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
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