Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 461
If you’re a bio park, the general public can’t even find the 10, nevermind, read it. Read More
If you’re a bio park, the general public can’t even find the 10, nevermind, read it. Read More
And you will never make that mistake again. Right?… Read More
Come on, I’ll make you a cup of coffee, let’s go. So dealing with problems as they come up. But nowadays you’ve got a tip toe around it and let’s have a sit down and have a wee chat and make sure you’re okay. And how do you feel about… Read More
You know, we had to deal with it, we dealt with it. You all done great, brilliant. We’re going down the pub, I’m buying. But during the event, but nowadays you’ve got people who you didn’t raise your voice at them because you’ll have HR on your back because they,… Read More
And you know, this is one of the things I tell you know, when, when, when it gets serious, someone may be barking instructions. It’s not a time for discussion. It’s not a time for, well, let’s have a think about this. Do as I’ve, I’ve told my staff in… Read More
It’s, it’s okay from a, from a, from an animal keeper’s perspective, it’s this desire to wrap their creatures. That they’re responsible for up in cotton wool to protect ’em from any possible distress. Not understanding how animals tick, being overly emotional when things go terribly wrong. What, what the,… Read More
You have used the word the zoological woke is what does that mean?… Read More
Many of them are transient. They come from out with the zoo community. They do a few years, one or two do good work, quite a few cause problems, and then leave and go back to the real world for want of a better term. So the ones that impress… Read More
Their style, their job responsibilities?… Read More
Do we still need zoos? Oh God, yes. If, if anything, they are more important and primarily because of their conservation role and in general, usually their potential conservation role rather than their actual conservation role in most many cases. But yeah, more important than ever. And you, you’ve had… Read More
What observations have you made about today’s zoo directors?… Read More
Do we still need zoos?… Read More
The game into the zoo game, the zoo profession breaking in, which has always been hard for everybody, you know, landing that first zoo job. So yeah, coming into the game is what we do. Read More
What does that mean?… Read More
I mean, all right. You know, I can be a little bit old school when it come. I mean, I love old urban zoos. Usually they have very large animal collections, which is obviously fascinating. They also have really interesting architecture, which is went well. I was at the, the,… Read More
And I hadn’t been to Berlin for a long time. And so I, I arrived a couple of days early and I did both Zoo Berlin and Berlin Tear Park, the two Berlin Zoos over the couple of days. And it was just, it’s like zoological mecca, you know, just… Read More
Why do you admire them and where are they?… Read More
Are there zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
What would you say is your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
I think, I think there’s, I think there’s two from an impactful point of view, being part of the small group that saved London Zoo from closure and being part of the small group that got the UK National Zookeeper course started. So saving a zoological icon and zookeeper education,… Read More