I mean, we’ve, we’ve, you know, touched on the fact that, you know, a keeper’s ability or lack of ability to use manual restraint, you know, either with a net or, you know, even just hand grabbing, you know, certain animals, you know, I’m certainly not advocating physically restraining adult lions and tigers, but, well, a lot of smaller species. It, you know, it is a, an important skill to have. But it’s one that there’s been this, and I’ve actually approached this with and with key people within the, the zoo community who are superb trainers of animals and have, have instilled those training skills in many zoos. And I said, you, you’ve, you’ve, you’re actually creating a false idea of that animal that animals can’t deal with stress. And when we’re dealing with animals that, most of which have evolved to deal with incredibly high levels of short term stress, which being manually restrained or being caught up would fall into that category. So you, you’ve done this, and now it’s the, if someone says, right, get the net, grab that animal and you end up, now you go to a zoo, the younger staff can’t do it, or, or often won’t do it. And so it’ll be, you know, the last of the older keepers who will come along and they’ll do that activity. ’cause the, the younger staff cannot, and in some cases will not, because they have this bizarre perception that the animal will melt if we do anything that’s gonna scare it.
