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Wade is this Dr. George Heck s father ? Dr. George Heck was in the Catskill game farm ? CleanRaul
Clean Raul,
I may be wrong, I'll check but I believe Prof. Heck was Dr. George Hecks uncle. Prof. Heck "recreated" the extinct Tarpan horse, by breeding various breeds of horses back until after many years he had remade the Tarpan, except he could never recreate the upright mane. All "Heck horses" have a flat mane. Catskill imported many Tarpan horses to the United States with the help of Dr. George Heck.
Wade Burck
The German zoologist and Director of the Berlin Zoo, professor Lutz Heck, and Heinz Heck who was working at the Tierpark Hellabrunn (Munich Zoo), started in the early 1930’s a selective breeding programme in the hope of bringing back the extinct tarpan. They believed that all living creatures were the result of their genetic make-up and that genes could be rearranged like the pieces of a puzzle to recreate certain vanished species. Only breeds that still had living descendants could be recreated because those living breeds would be a source for genetic material. Several European pony breeds had descended from the Tarpan. Primarily the Heck Brothers selected Polish Koniks, Icelandic Ponies, Swedish Gotlands and Polish Primitive Horses from the preserve in Bialowieza. Mares from these breeds were then mated to Przewalski stallions because the Heck brothers felt that the blood of the wild Przewalski would serve as a catalyst to draw out the latent Tarpan characteristics dormant in these more modern breeds. At first the Przewalski horse influence was too strong, but by 1960’s he succeeded to produce a horse, which resembled the skeletal evidence of the extinct Tarpan in the archives of Munich Zoo. The first bred back "Tarpan" or Heck Horse, a colt, was born May 22, 1933 at the Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich, Germany. These horses still survive as Heck Horses or German Tarpans.
Clean Raul,
This is Ludwig Heck, who was Dr. Georges grandfather. His uncle was Heinz Heck who was the Director of the Munich Zoo.
Wade Burck
Clean Raul,
Maybe you heard his father was the director of the Berlin Zoo. That's true. His father was Lutz Heck son of Ludwig. Lutz became directer of Berlin after Ludwig. Hell of a zoo dynasty right.
Wade Burcl
thank you for the confusion of whos who and who is in first base but you are right a hell of a dynasty . i had my pleasure of spending lots of time with Dr. Heck in the Catskill game farm . he was not afraid to share his knlwledge as well as his beers .CleanRaul . shame the gamefarm had to come to a end As well as Bensons .CleanZooRaul
Dr. Heck is mentioned in a recently published book titled "The Zookeeper's Wife", which is about the Warsaw Zoo during the German occupation during WWII. There was also a breeding program to try and recreate the quagga in Germany. That work has been started up again in South Africa using Burchell's zebras, which according to DNA analysis are the same species as the quagga.
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