You still have to have your standards, your animal welfare standards, you know, and your care and your, your professionalism of being a zoo professional and professional and zoological institution. But you have to listen to what your community and what your constituents are and what their concerns are regarding your institutions. Regarding re regarding the, the industry on a whole. I mean, there’s a couple of zoo professionals who hate the term industry ’cause it refers to production or whatever, whatever. But, you know, the zoo world is an industry, just like other industries. There are. But, so that’s a huge concern of mine, is that the masses attitudes about zoos is, is declining and their support of zoos and the mission of zoos, that, that they’re outdated. So I’ve seen a huge, you know, I’ve been in the zoo world 50 years, and I’ve seen it, you know, I’ve seen that. I, I I’ve witnessed that.
