Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 346
What is the most effective way to deal with elected officials and municipal officials in order to develop and manage the zoo?… Read More
What is the most effective way to deal with elected officials and municipal officials in order to develop and manage the zoo?… Read More
I think so, yes. And ev, everybody nowadays does. Read More
Do you think zoos and aquariums need to be more involved in animal welfare?… Read More
Is conservation so big that it’s unreasonable request to ask of zoos, big and small to help in conservation?… Read More
Should they all do something?… Read More
I would say, and the staff probably has different opinions. There are those who, who liked what I did and other status is impossible. Maybe Many zoos seem to say that conservation is just giving money. Read More
Would your staff say you were a tough boss or would you say I was a tough boss?… Read More
What would they say your style is?… Read More
Huh? I never asked myself. Tonight you will have the chance to ask my successor because he worked already 15 years before at the zoo. He was curator for the birds. Good one and made the competition for the new director. Read More
How would they talk about you and you running the zoo?… Read More
But if I talked to your staff, what would they say your style of management was?… Read More
Well I am an animal man and the animals for me were the most important at the zoo. And of course I set the rest of the day after the round, in the morning at my desk in the office and had to phone these and then so, but the… Read More
What would you say was your style of how you managed the zoo?… Read More
At times. When you were director, what would you say was your style of management?… Read More
My style?… Read More
What is the message you feel this should convey and do you feel it’s relevant?… Read More
Well the people want to see animals active doing something and this can be provoked best by feeding. So we have what traditional feeding time for the sea lions and they make some, you know, tricks we used to have and not anymore on elephants. And ah, we have on… Read More
Poor work, poor knowledge about those. But I think they thought they had a, made a good choice and I also thought they made a good choice. On the other hand, my colleagues were very skeptical. There comes some probably who has no knowledge on those or abso practical know… Read More
Well, my only experience was a small zoo in Kabul, which I did with much effort and and enthusiasm. But this was not real practical work in a big zoo like this. Read More
I don’t know why the, the board of trustees selected me and did not look to my poor, what do you say?… Read More