With no previous meaningful zoo experience, They were certainly very skeptical. But on the other hand, some of the animal keepers knew me from my time as a student working myself as a animal keeper. Well, and I had a quite well reputation. And of course this rule the long… Read More
What was your management style?… Read More
And when you became the director, how did the staff react to you as director?… Read More
It was a little old fashioned, my, my pre-processor, he was not very successful. He didn’t develop the zoo in a proper way and he had brought up the whole stuff against him so they couldn’t continue with them. Read More
So our careers are so similar that I thought they never take somebody from the university anymore. And why they did, I don’t know. Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you came to Cologne?… Read More
And who did you replace, who was the director before you?… Read More
This is also amazing. This was Ant Coolman. He was a spider specialist. He came from the university, he had founded the zoo in Kabul and then he was a director, the head of the Department of Zoology in Ro, not in Rostock, in K in the north of Germany. Read More
And what prompted you to say I want to leave university teaching and go be the head of a zoo?… Read More
And this was mainly my part, but I was involved also in research project field projects in which is in nowadays, what do you call it now, the upper, it was named Zo Boso. There was one successful project run by the Americans, by the way, in Tonga, Tanzania there,… Read More
Practically, I was my, my term at the university ended with my rehabilitation and I had to look for a job and I still keep a file of applications in my home in universities and also zoos, which originally had me my wish to work in a zoo. So this… Read More
And these were mostly the countries which had colonies, France, Belgium, England, red Berlin, not in America, there was nobody at that time. So they didn’t have any relation to have to to ies. So I started a new breeding of ies. We had to self-sustaining colony of IES for… Read More
Yes. My prof professor, well he actually asked me to work on these ies, he was one of the first entomologists working with isotopes, you know, radioisotopes. And he marked food and looked how it spread in a colony of ants, et cetera. And he gave courses even for the… Read More
And you said zoos are important to developing countries?… Read More
Yes. Because it’s somewhere for people to go. Yeah. So they learn to know their own fauna and they don’t have any chance on their own to go to the wild and see bits or a mountain goats or Marco or whatever. Marco Polo. And you left Afghanistan because your… Read More
Can you tell me about your research and your great interest in the Siti fly?… Read More
So I visited him, we became friends and we got, do you say owner?… Read More
We say on, you say I’m not, Which we saw yesterday and you said on Ger O-N-A-G-E-R? Yes. But if it starts with O we pronounce it O Ah Onga. Okay, I’m sorry. No, no, no. Okay. So, and we got that from them. It was our ambition to have… Read More
Yes, with the Tehran Zoo, which was led by a German former animal, not keeper, but dealer. He was engaged by Hagenbeck. Read More
Yes. Or the Kabul Zoo?… Read More