Well, I was a zoo director for 40 years, and I never figured that out. Only once in my 40 years did we euthanize a surplus animal, and we did that out of safety concerns for the staff. It was a bottle-raised hippopotamus that we tried for 10 years to surplus to a good place, with no takers. And he had become so aggressive that I had to make the decision, and I made it, to put him down. We would hold on to animals. You know, it was my belief, if we produced a surplus animal through whatever, for whatever reason, we had an obligation to maintain that animal in the best possible circumstance we could until we could find a good home for it. That wasn’t always easy. That was not always easy to do.
