Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 0
My name is Gunther Nogge. I was born 10th of January in 1942 at Cologne. Read More
My name is Gunther Nogge. I was born 10th of January in 1942 at Cologne. Read More
Thank you. You’re welcome. I. Read More
We, if you, if you’re doing the job properly, you have an international network, you’ve got mates all over the world. I mean, you and I haven’t seen each other for God knows how long. I think it might have been the conference at Painting Zoo, I think it was… Read More
How’s it like to be remembered? Your legacy?… Read More
In my wildest dreams be be being in Rem remembered in the same breath as Hegar. That’d be quite nice. Don’t think that’s gonna happen though. Being remembered as someone who, who made a difference, achieving some things. Maybe a couple of big things that affecting, you know, doing my… Read More
What do I know about it?… Read More
Yeah, I know that as frustrating as it can often be, we, if we are in the, in in the game, we are fully paid up members of the or, or should I say, we are not fully paid up members of the, thank God it’s Friday Club, we all… Read More
And it’s, I said, no, that’s not how the zoo community works. So I’ve always, you know, if I got an email from someone or a call from someone, we’re building a tiger enclosure. We’re not really sure how the fence should be. What do you think, Doug? And you… Read More
You Following up on that, about this profession, what do you know about this profession that you obviously devoted so many of your, so many years of your life here?… Read More
I remember sitting with a, with a group of very high-end marketing execs from here in London, a friend of mine who was in that community. And I think I got invited out for entertainment value. And so, you know, we’re at some restaurant that I couldn’t conceivably have afforded… Read More
You know, don’t you get the lawyers involved?… Read More
The zoo field?… Read More
To what extent do you continue to be active in the, the zoo?… Read More
I mean, since November, 2018 when I left the Highland Wildlife Park made the rather dubious move into zoo consultancy, I’d been advised that, you know, this wouldn’t be, that this is something that I could excel at. Other people obviously had more faith in myself than I did, but… Read More
This is all I’ve ever wanted to do. I mean, since I was the, as as far back as I can remember before I even went to primary school zoos, what held a, a unique fascination for me. What, what one thing that, that was really cool is that a… Read More
And the it penny dropped, the first polar bears I ever saw was a kid, as a kid, as a would’ve been, well from memory, a 4-year-old were the first polar bears I worked with as a zookeeper, obviously quite a long lived species. And so yeah, Jim and Queenie,… Read More
And it was like, you know, so what’s your history with polar bears?… Read More
Hopefully their country site that they’re focusing on will be able to take up the slack. But every, everything is temporary. You know, sometimes it might last 200 years, sometimes it might last 30. You just take advantage of whatever resources you have at the time. Read More
Why do you say that you could not do another type of job?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More