Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 366
Has that been successful? Hmm?… Read More
Has that been successful? Hmm?… Read More
Would you say that marketing today is more important than when you started?… Read More
What I said before You talked about zoo visitors, how do you think a zoo can improve the connection with kids and teenagers to heighten their awareness about the natural world?… Read More
I think so because the variety of offers for entertainment in this city has grown very much. And so we have to compete with all of them. But our special attraction are the enemies. Read More
Is there any advice that you as an experienced zoo director would give to a new zoo director about the importance of marketing your zoo?… Read More
I can say that my successor understood what I try to do and I think they have improved very much. There’s a lot of advertisement outside in the city and around the city to attract people into the zoo. So he does a very good job on that. So I,… Read More
Yes. – That many other zoo directors did not have?… Read More
No, no, no. Usually zoo directors, he comes to the zoo, his curator, and after some time he takes the chance to compete for the directorship. So they are just always worked at the zoo and didn’t care for anything else Now. So I was coming from outside and regarded… Read More
So in many ways your background in teaching was very invaluable to you as a zoo director?… Read More
And did you invite universities?… Read More
Yes, I was a professor and I taught at the universities at the first at bond and then on in at Cologne. And this was a chance to recruit young people in seminars, in guided tours, in lectures, and at least to con convince the academic world or at least… Read More
How important is research in zoos today?… Read More
It’s most important, but it’s also very difficult to get them in the, into the zoo because they’re anti zoo people sometimes are more successful to invite animal welfare people. And I was, I think I was also con I could convince them that welfare is at the best in… Read More
It has been important and it will be important. We have to develop the skills of welfare, of feeding, of all kind of veterinarian problems. It’s mostly important. Unfortunately the people working at the zoo don’t have much time for research. But you have to, to get contacts to university… Read More
Of course, yes it does. Read More
Is there a certain way they can do it to answer the message that the anti zoo groups are saying, is education important in in moving that forward?… Read More
Today I invited the people on the municipal, what do we say, parliament, so into the zoo for special feedings after close, after the zoo had been closed. And then I could tell them everything and they had to listen to me. And I think most of them accepted what… Read More
Is the education process doing any good in boosting the image of a zoo among the public in face of anti zoo groups?… Read More
Is education helping to make the zoo better even though anti zoo groups are out there?… Read More
In any case, they should do their best in keeping their animals in the best knowledge of welfare. And this has developed over the years very rapidly. I think You’ve had to deal with government officials. Read More