Some animals require a greater level of care to work with. Yeah, some animals are easier to work with. Some animals you don’t need to, I mean, like most hoofstock, if you’ve got the right social arrangement and you feed ’em and, you know, it’s set up well, they’re fairly easy to work with. You know, bears being omnivores, they’re easy to feed. The problem with the large animals is really if something happens and they get sick, and planting knockdowns and, I mean, that’s the biggest level of planning is you get an animal that you know you’ve got to handle. We’ve had a local dentist who started working at the zoo in Milwaukee before I started there, John Shields who basically created the whole zoo dentistry thing in the states. We had national conference of, international conference of zoo dentists at Milwaukee, but started really with the bears, ’cause they would… I fed bread to the docks at the National Zoo, in Milwaukee was marshmallows for the bears. (chuckles) Marshmallows are not good for bear teeth, (chuckles) so lots of, most of the bears had root canals and other stuff.
