European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine keeper Kurt Reinhardt communicating at the Frankfurt zoo Wilh an 8-year-old Sut Natran Tiger he named uncut Man. Keeper of the cats by Wendy Brounland staff writer Urt Reinhardt remembers he phone Call to his Home last january informing him Hal Lour lionesses had escaped from the Frankfurt zoo and were loading the Streels. I thought i was a Joko said the 54-year old zookeeper who has cared for the tons Ligers. Leopards jaguars and Panl heis in Germany s second oldest too Afler Berlin Lor 38 years. It was t. Liens Tike of Mark their territory and they had Lorn the Tynce around their enclosure after repeatedly clawing it. Finally a Hole became big enough Lor the females to slip through. A resident of an apartment building near the zoo walked out on his Balcony sometime around noon that Day looked Down saw Lour Lions strolling Down the sidewalk and rushed to the Telephone within two Houis of that Call Reinhardt and other zoo workers had located the lionesses sedated them Wilh aesthetic darts shot through a blowpipe and returned them to Captivity one of be keepers at he Frankfurt zoo Stein hard is 57" and has the slight build of a jockey he does t talk much. Has hands Are weathered and crisscrossed with faint sear lines he does t ear the big cals Hough the could kill him Wilh the swipe of a Paw my Wile is air Aid. But i m not he says. Like most Puoplo who work Wilh animals i Einhardt has a favorite among his Brood of 13. It s an 8-year-old Sumatran Liger he named in Chi my after the wife of a korean who played soccer for the Frankfurt team. A male Sumatran Tisci Mali is named alter the ail Etc she s mean Reinhardt says smiling but when to walks around la the front of her Cage.  s lands up and comes Ove to him. He purses his has inches from the Liger s lace and makes a put Tell sound through the bars which she reciprocates Man and cat commune of a moment or two until she gels bored and ski Unietis Oft. Several visitors iry to imitate Reinhardt s sound and the response with no Success. It s a Contact sound that a zookeeper uses when an animal really recognizes him explains Wolfgang Poler a zoologist. In Chi my is the Only cat Reinhardt has his rapport with. The Zook Loper s Day begins at 7 30 a m. Wilh Tho cleaning of the indoor and outdoor cages. The big cats sleep indoors Al night with the exception of the amur leopards natives of Russia s rigid siberian Region. Reinhardt does t enter the cages with the animals. The carnivores cats wolves boars Eal every Day a Scepi monday and tuesday Al 4 45 . Mid february through mid october and visitors May watch. Reinhardt serves each Cal a 5-to 6-kilo 1 to 13-Pound helping of chopped meal and Bone laced with vitamins and minerals on wednesday thursday saturday and sunday and a Small animal usually a Rabbit on Friday the carnivores Are led Only live Days a week to prevent sluggishness. Administering birth control medication is the Job of a veterinarian who gives the female Jaguar her Pill through a blowpipe every three months. Though a threatened species in its native South America the Jaguar is Well represented in zoos. The amur Leopard on the Oiler hand is encouraged to Breed and fran Lurl s newest amur cubs were born the fir is week of june. Art endangered species 50 amur leopards were in Captivity Asol Early 1936 forty Iryce of those Ivere either born in he Frankfurt zoo or tuesday. October 11, 1983  Are the Oil Spring of Frankfurt zoo animals. Dos pile the Success Rale not every amur Leopard birth has been a Happy one. She had two cubs Turco years ago. She had a caesarean Section Boh died Reinhardt says. Reinhardt s Day ends at 6 . Alter Tho next Day s food has been prepared. He says he wants to work Al the zoo another 10 years before retiring but knows what he s looking for in a replacement. It should t be a nervous person they should to Calm and  his familiarity with animals began As a child his Grandfather kept a menagerie of Domestic animals Al Home. Ironically. L was while nursing a baby Panther Hal belonged to he zoo that to became intros cd in working with animals for a living. Zoo keeping was t a profession then he says and there was no school to train animal keepers. When he was 16, he became the first enrol be in a newly established school Lor Cooke pets Al Tho Fra Kluit zoological gardens. Today a zookeeper in German receives three years training live to loss Denis attend the Frankfurt zookeeper school every year Aflex Reinha Fdl began his training his father and Mother followed him into the business doth Wora keepers at the Frankfurt zoo his father Lor 20 years Reinhardt a Mentor was a former director of he fran Lurl zoo Prol. Bernhard Gazimek who died last March. Gazimek was director from 1946 to 1970 Reinhardt s thoughts wandered Back to a Day 38 years ago. When professor Gazimek was Here he could Louch a Lew of the animals a says. I Houghl whal professor g. Could do i could do. I touched a Panther and it clawed a. I put my hand in my pocket and when professor g. Lett i went to the  the Frankfurt zoo is open irom 8am. To s . Unlit oct. 15and/roni8bm.to5p.m.oci. 16 to feb. 15. The stars and stripes Page 13