I think that the small to medium-sized zoos in this country right now are in serious difficulty. They don’t have the revenue to do everything they need to do with their own operation, which means with their collection, with their infrastructure, with their staff. And the fact that they’re a small zoo, their revenue is probably not that high. And they’re probably try to find whatever they can find monetarily in order to keep themselves operational from year-to-year. And I think that a lot of these small municipals zoos, they’re in competition with the fire department, the police department, the schools, I mean, and when somebody says, “Well, what about the zoo?” It’s like, we don’t let them raise their own money. we can’t afford, we got them on the budget and that’s all they’re gonna get. It’s a tough decision as far as we’re gonna send $20,000 to Indonesia to protect the Asian rhino, where are they gonna get $20,000 unless they can get it from the society. You couldn’t even get money out of the National Zoo to pay for me to come up here.
