This was a chimpanzee, a chimpanzee in this desert of, of dust. And yes, this was a sensation. People came, a lot of people came just to see the chimp chimpanzee symbol for the recreation rebuilding of the zoo. And he was used for marketing, what do you say, purposes,… Read More
Yes. Can you relate to us any stories about the war years and how it affected the Cologne Zoo specifically when people were trying justifying food to keep their animals alive when people were just looking for food?… Read More
I mean, how did the Warriors affect the Cologne Zoo?… Read More
So, so this was very, I think a very fascinating idea. I believe in it. And that is why the snow crane is for me, a symbol for what two can achieve. You mentioned that after the war colon and of course the zoo were devastated. Read More
Ka whatever, Ghana in India near, this is a sanctuary for birds hunting. First of all, it was a hunting safari area. And I met, we met them there, the three which I had seen in Afghanistan. And very shortly after that, this population was extinct. And Archibald, you know,… Read More
There’s one colony of snow cranes, which usually crossed Afghanistan twice, and there was a resting place called Abe, somewhere far away in the desert. And one day I must say that I visited this Abe each month, once each month to count the bird species. And at one of… Read More
And then I wanted to see the place where the hiate, this is in, what is it called?… Read More
Can you relate your story of the snow crane and its symbolism to you?… Read More
The academic world is not much interested in zoo. So if you make your your lectures on your own, you get the students, you can tell them what Zeus are about and what they want. And it was a chance for me to re Reid a lot of scholars, I… Read More
Why in was it important for you to start lectures at the zoo?… Read More
Yes, of course. The, the wonderful thing in this job is that this is an international community and you have an international organization of zoo za and you join or attend conferences and you come to Japan, to Australia, to America, of course. And each time I took some days… Read More
And if you visited other, were you taking back things that you’d seen to cologne to apply?… Read More
And did the job allow you to travel to see other zoos?… Read More
The field aspect, I’m not quite sure, but at least we were one of the first to be involved in field projects and the first was to provide the horse lion submarine. Read More
All men, Not only, not all, all of them, but about 90%. And every year we, we, we advertised the position of the, what do we call the learning animal keeper. And we took at least two females to two to three males. And by the way, by the time… Read More
Did you start the conservation on an international level?… Read More
Did you start the conservation things, these programs when you were director?… Read More
If not, when did women keepers start at the zoo when you were here?… Read More
Were they all men? Were there women keepers?… Read More
Sometimes I met very nice people to some of which I today still have contacts. Read More