I hate guillotine doors. The number of animals that have been injured by them. The times that, you know, the cable will snap at the most inconvenient point. Always have horizontal slides. You can, you can always alter a design to enable that to happen. I, I’m, I’m always interested… Read More
So you want, and, and while it’s being built, you go and visit the building site at least every day, if not every other day. Because there will be things where once it starts going up for real, it’d be like, actually you’re about to put that door in. It… Read More
I’ve always thought we should really be putting every effort into developing a, a genetic test that will identify zoo architects at birth. So we can kill them before they actually do some real damage. But that probably won’t be possible, at least not in my lifetime. So my approach… Read More
It’s the term. It’s the term. I think it is. It is another one of these cop out names. You know, you know, we’re a, we’re a wildlife conservation center. You’re a zoo, own up. Be proud of the fact you’re a zoo. Stop trying to come up with some… Read More
If you’re a bio park, the general public can’t even find the 10, nevermind, read it. Read More
What’s your approach to zoo design?… Read More
And you will never make that mistake again. Right?… Read More
Come on, I’ll make you a cup of coffee, let’s go. So dealing with problems as they come up. But nowadays you’ve got a tip toe around it and let’s have a sit down and have a wee chat and make sure you’re okay. And how do you feel about… Read More
And you know, this is one of the things I tell you know, when, when, when it gets serious, someone may be barking instructions. It’s not a time for discussion. It’s not a time for, well, let’s have a think about this. Do as I’ve, I’ve told my staff in… Read More
You know, we had to deal with it, we dealt with it. You all done great, brilliant. We’re going down the pub, I’m buying. But during the event, but nowadays you’ve got people who you didn’t raise your voice at them because you’ll have HR on your back because they,… Read More
It’s, it’s okay from a, from a, from an animal keeper’s perspective, it’s this desire to wrap their creatures. That they’re responsible for up in cotton wool to protect ’em from any possible distress. Not understanding how animals tick, being overly emotional when things go terribly wrong. What, what the,… Read More
You have used the word the zoological woke is what does that mean?… Read More
Their style, their job responsibilities?… Read More
Many of them are transient. They come from out with the zoo community. They do a few years, one or two do good work, quite a few cause problems, and then leave and go back to the real world for want of a better term. So the ones that impress… Read More
Do we still need zoos? Oh God, yes. If, if anything, they are more important and primarily because of their conservation role and in general, usually their potential conservation role rather than their actual conservation role in most many cases. But yeah, more important than ever. And you, you’ve had… Read More
What observations have you made about today’s zoo directors?… Read More
Do we still need zoos?… Read More
The game into the zoo game, the zoo profession breaking in, which has always been hard for everybody, you know, landing that first zoo job. So yeah, coming into the game is what we do. Read More
What does that mean?… Read More
I mean, all right. You know, I can be a little bit old school when it come. I mean, I love old urban zoos. Usually they have very large animal collections, which is obviously fascinating. They also have really interesting architecture, which is went well. I was at the, the,… Read More