Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 434
Are you the highest, is colon the highest example of how it should be done correctly By one of the zoos?… Read More
Are you the highest, is colon the highest example of how it should be done correctly By one of the zoos?… Read More
In your professional opinion, what is your view regarding zoo’s, maintaining elephants and how it should be done correctly?… Read More
How important is the community support and kazoo survive without it?… Read More
I mean, imagine a zoo from the sixties. This zoo was terrible looking. There were one cage after the other and people don’t like to see that anymore. So you have to develop in the, I mean, you have to invest in the development, otherwise you cannot compete and cannot… Read More
Now? Of course not. Zoo is for the people and if the people don’t like it anymore, if they support it, they do not support it anymore. You can close it. We had talked about the elephants. Read More
I stole it from Haine Hegar. This was one of his, i I mean mottos. And of course it is an emergency because the wild, the wild nature is shrinking everywhere day. So at last there are left zoos. See it is a emergency exit, of course, emergency exit because… Read More
Exactly. What do you mean?… Read More
What did that mean to you and why do you quote it in your book?… Read More
Well, this citation I received from Kar, and he was the director of Zu and he didn’t show up very much in international pro conferences because he didn’t speak English, but German fluently and Russian et cetera. So we were very good friends. And this was 85 when we had… Read More
What do you mean?… Read More
Yes, of course. Yes. Yes. I think in Germany, this is still the fundamental book on zoo biology. Can you talk about, Heger did a quote which you quote in your book about and what it means to you. It says, zoos are by no means only zoological matters, but… Read More
And do you think it’s important?… Read More
And now in this time, do you think that zoo people, whether they be directors or curators, understand these principles and know who this person is and understand?… Read More
I think Heger is still very well known in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, of course, he had been the director of three zoos, one after the other burned Basel village. And he laid the foundation of the modern scientific led zoo in his books. He wrote the first one in 42. Read More
And if he had time enough beside all his conservation in Africa, Would you say that he was a leading zoo director in showing the importance of field and helping?… Read More
Do you believe that the animal keepers today, the curators that were under your direction and even directors are aware and understand the knowledge of HeNe ker?… Read More
Yes, There are other important people. Read More
Who is Jimick and his importance in your opinion?… Read More
Well, he was the first zoo director of Frankfurt too, and did a good job at the zoo. But his main merit was the engagement in Africa, in Tanzania, in the Sang Haiti. And he propagated the conservation in general so much that nowadays everybody in Germany combines it with… Read More
Sure, I think I contract it really. I think my successor does a good job. And that’s also in, as I said already, the leading zoo in Germany is presently. Read More