I mean, they weren’t, they were independent operations, but because, ’cause John and I had that had that sort of common interest, but then we ran, if you with something like Orx and, and Aax and so on, you want to build up numbers. So what we then did was… Read More
Well, it started really with, with the relationship with Marwell John John Knowles, who I, I know you, you’ll know the name that John died a few years ago, but he had begun Marvel Manor as a private collection, firstly of wild quid species. He had one time, I think… Read More
And John, who had the resources at the time, John, John ran a, a, a very major poultry, national poultry industry. And, and that’s where he made his money. But he had the resources at the time to start bringing in through quarantine because the, the problem is with the… Read More
This is the London Zoo, was it with all zoos or just Marwell Zoo?… Read More
When did that start and what prompted this kind of collegial change?… Read More
And also, if you think about it most, a lot, an awful lot of key zoological literature, and I’m talking about books mostly were written during the early years of those, of those scientific societies in London. So not only London Zoo, geographical society, the ones I’ve already, people like… Read More
Why Age of the, of the London Zoo?… Read More
We did involve, and of course they were quite active at that time, some European dealers. And we did also find animals in the, actually in the Middle East that we were able to, to get some from. But in the end, it landed up with a jumbo 7 4… Read More
I can’t imagine London Zoo has a major zoo library. Yeah, But there’re not many zoo libraries in the United States. Read More
And for some reason or other it had, it had sort of, maybe he had some other interest at the time, but came to us and said, or brother, his folks came to us and said, look, could you, could you have our zoo up and running in two months,… Read More
And so, goodness, that was why. But we said, yeah, we’ll see what we can do. So it landed up with organizing 800 animals. Now some of them were Liz little lizards and frogs and tiny little things. Some, some invertebrates right up to white rhinos. They already had two… Read More
Well, we had, we were lucky enough at London to have a very well staffed architectural department, which was there primarily for our own purposes. But because we had those skills on site, we were approached by, over, over the, over a period of years, approached by a number of… Read More
And, and in one or two cases, Doha and Qatar was a particular example where we actually went through the whole process and then, and then in the end managed that zoo for about five years. And, and at that particular time we, I was also for a short period… Read More
How did that happen and why London Zoo and then can you relate a specific instance of you having to literally build an entire zoo?… Read More
We had the pandas and the idea was knowing what was going on in American zoos at that time. We are looking now at the sort of 80, really the eighties, late seventies and eighties. What was going on in American zoos in the way of investment in, in better… Read More
And, and actually right now we are okay financially. And they were fi they were okay financially up until, up until really the early fifties when so much else was available in the way of days out for the, the London and surrounding public. And of course the late fifties,… Read More
So when we went back in Mag Maggie Thatcher’s time, we went back to Maggie and said, look, we, we, there’s no way that we can survive. This institution can’t survive without similar funding to the other great biological institutions in the, in the, in London, which were, as you… Read More
Can you discuss how the London Zoo was able to raise money?… Read More
Well, with, with a lot of difficulty, I mean yes, yes. Soli Zuckerman was very good at, because he was a great networker, and particularly within his wealthy Jewish community, Jewish friends, they, the claw and the cottons in the exhibits named after those guys that, you know, wealthy businessmen… Read More
But the expectation behind the scenes, certainly for us and others in the panda world, the western country, panda world, was that some of these animals should be, and from Mexico should actually be distributed. Particularly where again, I think there was a male left in Berlin, there was a… Read More