Visitor attitudes have changed a lot over the years. Absolutely. They have. And they haven’t, you know, people come to a zoo or an aquarium 80% of the time as a family, as a family thing to do together, recreational time together. And a lot of those families want the kids to do a little learning to, you know, when, when they come to the zoo, you know, I think people’s expectations of animal welfare has just skyrocketed. Okay. You know, when I started out working at the WPA facility in South Bend, Indiana, I mean, literally chain leak boxes on concrete slabs for bears, lions, you know, just monkeys, just nasty little things. That was fine. You know, 50 years ago, that was absolutely fine. ’cause people could throw their hamburger buns, their marshmallows in and, you know, feed the bears. Okay, well, heck, we’ve fed bread to the bears as a zookeeper. Okay? We’d milked the cow, put the, put six loaves of bread in a bucket, pork cow’s milk over, and throw a couple apples in there, and then that would, would feed the bear.
