We were constantly faced by their criticisms and I think that we probably didn’t react to their criticisms correctly when they first came out. I think we did a lot of knee jerks and we reacted to their criticism instead of being proactive about it. We should have gotten probably ahead of that long before we did. When you look at where we are today, I think public has a much better understanding of the goals of zoos today than they did then because we probably really didn’t get it across what our real goals were. I’m not sure we knew so much ourselves what they were really, where we were gonna end up. And if you look at the fact that a lot of these animal rights organizations, although people that are in the administration of them may try to do some things in an intellectual fashion, the majority of people that belong to them are very emotional. They belong to ’em because they’re emotional about the way animals are kept in captivity or are handled in any fashion. So, you’ve got a whole different kind of arena you’re having to deal with there and they’re approaching things largely from an emotional side, we’re trying to deal with it and respond to it on an intellectual side.
