The role of a zoo today has to remain diverse. I think a zoo today is definitely charged with the responsibility of its collection, that’s the heart of operating any zoo. And just as schools and orphanages and everything else have to care about people and children, it’s the animals that are the core and heart of what the zoo should always be. But I think the fact that the zoo today is part of an umbrella of interaction, the zoo of yesterday was an island, I felt. I got mine and the heck with you, that was a philosophy, there was no sharing. Secrets were contained within the operation or the institution, that has slowly, steadily changed. And then now we’re cooperating, we work together. I think that the outreach to various important areas of the world where the wildlife are has become meaningful.
