Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 439
And you know, it’s the side of training that impresses the hell outta me When I was a keeper, what did you want to achieve?… Read More
And you know, it’s the side of training that impresses the hell outta me When I was a keeper, what did you want to achieve?… Read More
You wanted a world first breeding that that was the tick that was, that you wanted. And you know, I managed one or two over the years, either global or national first breedings. And for me that was, that was the buzz to have been able to have a crack… Read More
Which seems to have historically been the problem. And if we started to run into a, a difficulties or a particular individual and stop feeding, we could just re-release it again within the zoo. And so, you know, that for me was the doing zoo firsts. Read More
You would talk to young keepers today and it’s like, you know, you know what, what do you want to achieve?… Read More
Or I want to get, you know, this animal or that animal to, to train it for manual injection, which is a really cool thing. Read More
How, how do we feed them?… Read More
And it seemed to me that right, we’re in the ideal situation to be able to experiment with how do we keep these things in captivity?… Read More
But then I left the zoo and nobody carried on with the idea. In Singapore, you know, touched on the flying lemurs. We had a wild population of cool logo in the, in the zoo. Read More
Yeah, I mean, there was one at Highland Wildlife Park, we only in recent years started to get European cranes coming back to the uk. We’re kind of partially on the, on the Flyway for birds migrating from Scandinavia. And my, we had a, the large drive through exhibit where… Read More
Are there programs or exhibits that you would’ve implemented during your time in the profession that just didn’t happen?… Read More
No, I wouldn’t have. So for as far as how my, had my working record progressed in all the different institutions, I think that’s what made me a useful zoo employee. Because not only have I worked with a whole range of different species, I’ve worked with the same species… Read More
Maybe. But would I have been as useful a curator?… Read More
Would I have get gotten promotion faster?… Read More
You know, should I have gone to university?… Read More
So if you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
Probably pissed off, fewer directors. That might have been a start. Maybe. I think I learned not to burn bridges the hard way, be more of a, a political animal than I was slightly less blunt, probably just rolling out all my character flows. I think that would be the… Read More
And people will say, oh no, you can’t keep this or you can’t keep that. And my response is, no, we just don’t know how to keep that or how to keep this. It doesn’t mean we can’t, it just means we don’t know at the moment. At the moment. Read More
Of course it would. Is it doable? Yes, it is. I sent some pictures recently to a friend and it was ones I, I’d come across online and, but I remember the story and it was that gray whale that they had, that they rescued at, at San Diego SeaWorld. Read More
But it, for all intents and purposes, it was successful. So we have species today. I mean, I mentioned the flying lemurs earlier. That was one of the projects that I wanted to explore at Singapore. ’cause we had a wild population there. They, you know, their, their captive lifespan… Read More
Almost definitely. Yes. Will it cost a fortune to do?… Read More