I think quite honestly, I would think the toilets. I think that the toilets are something brilliant, which nobody really has picked up on. Like the Night Safari, nobody’s really picked up on the Night Safari. I don’t think they even get it, half the people who talk about Night… Read More
I don’t know. The only other Night Safari that was ever built, we designed in Chiang Mai, which is Thailand, which is still operating. And we built one when I was still at Singapore in China in Guangzhou. And they closed it down, not because it was doing badly, because… Read More
Balodies toilets, sir. Well, thank you, Bernard Harrison. I appreciate you sitting down with us- My pleasure. Talking about your life and legacy. Yeah, good. Thank you. My pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. Read More
Anyway, I can’t remember his name, but he was a curator of mammals at Leipzig. And he said, “Look, we’re on this boat, it’s gone to the Antarctic. It’s a East German or it’s a Russian vessel and we’ve stopped into Singapore and I have all these East German marks,… Read More
And years later, I find that Jörg is now the director of the Munster Zoo. And Adler, Jörg Adler, that’s the director of Munster Zoo. And I meet up with him. I said, “My God, you are the guy who came to see me.” And he said, “You’re the guy… Read More
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I mean, the the professionals who are really kind of zoo people are really a very dedicated bunch of people. I say especially the technical staff, the zoologists, the veterinarians, the botanists of horticulturalists and some of the exhibit designers. I think those kind of like people that they really… Read More
The power. The power. I think the live animal. The live animal is the most powerful thing that you can ever have. So if somebody comes to me and say, “Well, zoos are irrelevant because we have National Geographic and Discovery Channel. We have other forms of virtual reality and… Read More
And so it’s how do you enhance that without abusing the animals?… Read More
And what do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
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Is that what you advise your clients this hybrid?… Read More
I don’t go so much on rides because I don’t think necessary, I mean rides, meaning like the sort of rollercoaster-based ride. I’m not really that, but I mean I think like themed rides in Savannah, that kind of ride’s fine. Boat rides where you’re seeing animals, that’s fine. Putting… Read More
That’s why you have these, things are getting more popular. Read More
I think probably zoos are probably at their most vulnerable right now and will get more and more vulnerable and their relevance will be questioned in the future. I think there’s a big anti-zoo movement in the world. And zoos really need to work hard at becoming more relevant and… Read More
Animal Kingdom is a very good example of that sort of hybrid that could be a future for zoos in the next 20, 30 years. No, I’m not a great fan of it myself, but I mean I’m looking at the situation. And I’m saying you really do need to… Read More
But I think that maybe it’s not a question of whether it’s palatable or not. It’s a question of if it’s a choice between that and extinction, then obviously zoo should not go down that path that the giant pandas went down. Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquarium staying relevant and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More