Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 340
I would say, and the staff probably has different opinions. There are those who, who liked what I did and other status is impossible. Maybe Many zoos seem to say that conservation is just giving money. Read More
I would say, and the staff probably has different opinions. There are those who, who liked what I did and other status is impossible. Maybe Many zoos seem to say that conservation is just giving money. Read More
Would your staff say you were a tough boss or would you say I was a tough boss?… Read More
How would they talk about you and you running the zoo?… Read More
Huh? I never asked myself. Tonight you will have the chance to ask my successor because he worked already 15 years before at the zoo. He was curator for the birds. Good one and made the competition for the new director. Read More
What would they say your style is?… Read More
Well I am an animal man and the animals for me were the most important at the zoo. And of course I set the rest of the day after the round, in the morning at my desk in the office and had to phone these and then so, but the… Read More
But if I talked to your staff, what would they say your style of management was?… Read More
What would you say was your style of how you managed the zoo?… Read More
At times. When you were director, what would you say was your style of management?… Read More
My style?… Read More
Well the people want to see animals active doing something and this can be provoked best by feeding. So we have what traditional feeding time for the sea lions and they make some, you know, tricks we used to have and not anymore on elephants. And ah, we have on… Read More
What is the message you feel this should convey and do you feel it’s relevant?… Read More
I don’t know why the, the board of trustees selected me and did not look to my poor, what do you say?… Read More
Well, my only experience was a small zoo in Kabul, which I did with much effort and and enthusiasm. But this was not real practical work in a big zoo like this. Read More
Poor work, poor knowledge about those. But I think they thought they had a, made a good choice and I also thought they made a good choice. On the other hand, my colleagues were very skeptical. There comes some probably who has no knowledge on those or abso practical know… Read More
I never dared to say it. So, and after finishing my PhD, I was offered a position in Afghanistan as a docent at the University Department of Theology. And with this department was connected a little zoo, Kabul zoo, which I just found it was a very small zoo, only… Read More
This was, Was it difficult because you had no zoo experience that they accepted you?… Read More
There are antelope za, which is antelope. Then there spectacle birds also, which I don’t know which I don’t want to to to to name all of them. And when I came back from Afghanistan, I came back to my home university and I was working 10 years as I… Read More
If one of the journalists asked me, what is your favorite animal?… Read More
So, and I finally ended in a institute of parasitology and worked on Russell flies, told, don’t know in English. And later on I met my rehabilitation 10 years on ies. So flies are the best known animals to me. Read More