You know, I belong to the zoo, I belong to PETA.” And, you know, well, wait a minute, hold on, you know. “Do you understand that they want to close?” “Really? Really?” It just shows you how ill-informed people are about not just zoos, but animals and nature. We need to do a better job, and when I say we, I mean everybody that cares about the natural world needs to do a better job of informing people about what we’re all about. A complaint sometimes heard from zoo directors is there are too few good curators in our community.
