Ludwig George Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 - 6 April 1983, born and died in Berlin) was a Germanzoologist, animal researcher, an animal book author and a director of zoo. This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. ...
Lutz Heck was also a Nazi who rather killed animals than saved them. In Antonina’s List by D. T. Max you can read about it. From The New York Times Sunday Book Review: "“The Zookeeper’s Wife” proceeds chronologically, starting before the war, when the Warsaw Zoo was as esteemed as any in Europe. Soon the Nazis destroyed the zoo with bombs and guns. Led by the criminal zoologist Lutz Heck, they carted off the best animals for their own collections. Then Heck and the SS held a shooting festival on New Year’s Eve, 1939, to finish the job. Their brutality at the zoo foretold their brutality in the war, as Antonina intuited in her diary, which Ackerman draws on heavily for her book. “How many humans will die like this in the coming months?” Antonina asks herself, watching the Nazi shooting spree." Heinz Heck (22 January 1894 - 5 March 1982, born in Berlin and died in Munich) was a German biologist and director of zoo in Munich. ... Heck Cattle, also called reconstructed aurochs, is a hardy breed of cattle (Bos taurus) often referred to by its promoters by the name of aurochs. (The aurochs was an extinct recent ancestor to modern cattle. ... A Heck horse in Sababurg, Germany (2004) Heck horse in Haselünne, Germany (2004) The Heck horse is a breed of horse that resembles the extinct tarpan. ...
How could Heck live to 1983? What justice system let that happen?
One purpose of LutzHeck’s mission in Poland was to dispatch the finest remaining animals to zoos in Germany.
Heck’s experiment in animal re-creation was under the patronage of Goering – an enthusiastic hunter of animals rather than their protector as evidenced from the prewar photographs at Białowieża – and lavishly funded.
Heck's importance to Hitler may be gauged by the fact that, as the war was nearing its end, he was spirited out of Russian territory and flown back to Germany.
Heck cattle were developed in the early 20th century by the Heck brothers in Germany in an attempt to breed back modern cattle to their presumed ancestral form, the Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius).
A typical Heck bull should be at least 1.6 m (5.25 ft) high and a cow 1.4 m (4.60 ft), with weight 600 to 900 kg(1,300 to 2,000 lb).
The Heck bulls were not much larger than the bull of most breeds of domestic cattle, while wild aurochs bulls are believed to have often exceeded 1000 kilograms (2,200 lb), half the size of a rhinoceros.
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