Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 121
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those same issues?… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those same issues?… Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in, in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
Huh. I mean, certainly when I was first brought to zoos as a child visitor, which for me was the, the highlight of my year, certainly the uk the, the zoo visiting season opens on the Easter weekend. And so going to Edinburgh Zoo where I was as a young… Read More
And I said, right, what have you got?… Read More
And the keepers had done some drawings and I made sure that everything they wanted was incorporated in the plans I gave them. And it turns out everybody was really happy with it. ’cause I, I took what they had and made it easier because I’d been a zookeeper. I… Read More
Is there something else that you’d want there?… Read More
I did a job recently for Dundee. They wanted a new gibbon enclosure. Read More
I said, come on. You know, I said, tell me what to do. And anyway, they, they taught me how to catch crocodiles. There was one guy who was getting a bit cocky by the end of the day and giving me lots of instructions of, okay, right, you’re pushing… Read More
It’s time to you guys. So have a look at it, you know, have I, you know, have I missed something?… Read More
We had to catch up and move them. And I’d never caught a big crocodile before. And so the, there was a number of keepers at Singapore that had a lot of crocodile experience. And I said, right, okay, today I’m working for you. You have to tell me what… Read More
I said, well, I’ve, I’ve always been interested in zoo architecture, but I taught myself how to read a plan, how to alter it, how to use tracing paper to basically come up with something new, another be kind to the maintenance department. That’s absolutely crucial. When you want a… Read More
And it turns out, because of planning permission, we had to stay within the footprint. And so over a lunchtime, I changed the interior design. Read More
And the architect was like, how did you do that?… Read More
And so, you know, I said, look, you know, can I need to change a few things?… Read More
So they can’t make intelligent contribution to it. I mean, I did a job in Rome and we had a, a a, a zoo architect firm doing the new bear enclosure. And, and I wasn’t happy with, the exhibit was great, but the holding area was, I didn’t think it… Read More
And it was like, okay, right, okay, this is, this is right up my street. And so I basically, I came up with a list of, I think it was 16 key points. What it starts with is you have to have been a zookeeper. You, you, you ha you… Read More
And they asked me, I said, look, can you do a talk about what it takes to be a, a good curator?… Read More
I did a, I was asked to do a talk at, it was actually a keeper’s sort of three day workshop called Keeper Fest at a place called Jimmy’s Farm in Wildlife Park down in, in the south of England. Read More
Oh, you should go to the Highland Wildlife Park. It’s brilliant. You know, they’ve got tigers and polar bears and, you know, and huge enclosures. It looks fantastic. And so we were able to completely change the, the, the significance of the collection, both in the eyes of the, the… Read More
Now you’ve been in this position many times, what would you include in a training program for curators?… Read More