But when I was a keeper, you never saw other, other than when I went to the states and I went either out west or down south, you never saw non-Caucasian zookeepers. ’cause culturally it was still okay. That’s, that’s not like a, that’s a, that’s a, that’s a, a… Read More
And I said, no, she’s, you know, the, she’s made for this job. I think she’s still at Singapore Zoo now. And she’ll, and she’ll be very, she’ll be great at it. And it was like, so in Singapore as, as affluent and as westernized as Singapore is, there was… Read More
Can you pick someone else?… Read More
And, you know, and it, it was almost, can you dissuade her?… Read More
I work out in Asia. I mean, I, when I was in Singapore, I had to keeper her vacancy. I did the interviews and there was this, this, this one woman, and she had a, she was Chinese Singaporean, she had a biology degree from Cambridge University in the uk. Read More
’cause if I run into someone who’s anti zoo, right, I’m, I’m just not in the mood for the argument anymore. So I’ve been a gynecologist, an architect, a plumber to avoid the, on the rare occasion, usually I do like a row to avoid the, that conversation, but, but… Read More
’cause a job that wasn’t there to enjoy a job, was there to put food on the table and pay the rent. So, and it took me a long, it took, absolutely, it was an interview almost like this where the penny dropped and it was like, that’s what, that’s… Read More
And for, you know, from a working class Scottish background, the idea of having a choice of two jobs, and it took me a long time to, to realize this, that why would you take the job that paid less money?… Read More
This is what I want to do. You know?… Read More
The job became sexy when I, I remember when I started got my first zoo job at Edinburgh and, you know, I’d I’d as every young zoo person that you’d, you’d r I’d written letters off to huge numbers of zoos to try and get a job, try and get… Read More
The realtor?… Read More
What, what changed in your opinion?… Read More
So if you are speaking to the press and it is a complex topic that they’re, they, they want the one or two sentence response, be completely honest with ’em. Look, I’m more than happy to talk about this, but this is a complex situation, you know, you know, if… Read More
Any advice for a young zoo manager?… Read More
Honesty is the best policy. If you try and obscure a fact or a disaster or a mistake, it will come back to bite you. Invariably the truth will out. So being completely honest with the press is crucial. The difficulty arises when you’re trying to talk about a complex… Read More
I mean, you know, I never met the man, but, or communicated with ’em in any way, shape, or form. But I mean, heger I suppose would be a medic, a mentor, stroke, hero, stroke, you know, just someone that I would want to, at the end of the profession,… Read More
And Graham was, if anything prolific, if, if Conway has a, a keeper opposite number. It was Graham because of, of, of his approach to, to managing animals and making their lives as dynamic and as interesting and demanding as possible. He did some really interesting stuff, really interesting stuff. Read More
They that rare, that really, that really describes it. So I think being able to, when dealing with the general public is to, to get a message and put it into an analogy that they can get their head round. You know, there’s, there’s 10 times more people can sit… Read More
Did you have mentors in the profession? Who were they?… Read More
So you had one lot, right?… Read More