When I went to the Bronx Zoo, it was like the old business about Boston, about the cabbits only speaking to God. And at the zoo, curators, there was a definite chasm between the curators and the veterinarians, not that there were very many of either. So I immediately started something, when I became director I started something called the animal management meeting, which meets every Thursday morning at 8:30 for an hour, as long as it takes. And I wanted to tie animal records and I wanted full transparency. So that was the biggest task that I had to deal with. Transparency, accountability. Animal management meeting, all of the curator and veterinary staff, all the aquarium people, all the zoo people had to be there. And each had to report.
