Dagmar Schratter

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Dagmar Schratter (* 1954 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian biologist and zoologist . From 2007 to 2019 she was director of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna.

Life

Schratter received his doctorate from the natural science faculty of the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz , majoring in zoology with a minor in botany . She wrote her doctoral thesis in the Hohe Wand Nature Park in the south of Vienna and in Herberstein on the subject of youth development in Alpine ibex .

Schratter worked until 1981 at the side of the behavior scientist Otto Koenig at the Vienna Institute for Comparative Behavioral Research , at the same time she was an employee of the Styrian Herberstein Zoo . Until 1993 she headed the Institute for Applied Eco-Ethology in Staning (Upper Austria), which was founded by Koenig and which she helped set up. She was often seen in the ORF series "Rendezvous with animals and humans", which she moderated with Koenig.

The biologist was brought in 1993 by zoo director Helmut Pechlaner as zoological department head and deputy director at Schönbrunn Zoo. She was mainly responsible for the giant pandas , koalas , Indian rhinos and other difficult-to-keep animal species, and she dealt with the expansion and renovation of enclosures. She dedicated herself to the then newly opened Tyrolean farm and the preservation of old, Austrian domestic animal breeds, she was also active in the management of the desert house.

On January 1st, 2007 she succeeded Helmut Pechlaner, who retired as zoo director, as the first director of Schönbrunn Zoo. She was selected for this post on June 14, 2006. At the end of 2019 she retired, her successor as director of the Schönbrunn Zoo was Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck .

Publications

Schratter has published several specialist books on zoological topics and, together with Pechlaner and the historian Gerhard Heindl, publishes the historical book series “Tiergarten Schönbrunn - History” ( Verlag Braumüller , since 2005).

  • Eveline Dungl, Dagmar Schratter, Ludwig Huber. Discrimination of face-like patterns in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). In: J Comp Psychol 122/2008: 335-343. doi : 10.1037 / 0735-7036.122.4.335

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the Austrian National Library , entry under: Schurian, Dagmar
  2. ↑ Institute See behavior research
  3. ↑ Hering-Hagenbeck becomes director of the Schönbrunn Zoo. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 30, 2019, accessed February 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dagmar Schratter receives the Golden Medal of Honor from the City of Vienna . City hall correspondence of March 12, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Minister of Economic Affairs Udolf-Strobl presented decorations to personalities in the local economy. October 25, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schratter, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian zoologist, head of the Schönbrunn Zoo
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt