I think the, I I think one of the things that we’ve learned is we are not, it, it’s not likely that zoos are gonna become, for instance, like dairy cattle, pretty much no farms that are dairy farms have dairy bulls to, to breed with the, the dairy cows because they, they give milk because they’re pregnant, they have calves. All of that is done by artificial reproduction, artificial insemination. And, and it’s, and it’s not the exception, it’s the rule that’s how dairy calves are produced. I don’t see that happening in zoo settings. I think the, the goal has been more to improve our understanding of behavior and understanding of habitat design so that we can maintain the appropriate social groups in order to, in order to get natural reproduction research in, in the area of assisted reproduction has really focused more on particular problem cases, like the one I mentioned with doing artificial insemination in elephants. So I, I think it has, you know, it certainly has a purpose. Assisted reproduction was instrumental in moving us moving the giant panda population in, into the situation it is now. The development of artificial insemination techniques has been critical to those guys.
