People talk about, alright, we’re managing zoo populations for conservation reasons and you know, and it’s important to have as genetically as, as as broad a genetic base as possible. Yes, we are conserving genes, but for many species, particularly the more complex ones, we should also be conserving behavior. So it’s not just enough to be able to breed our animals. Lions and tigers would breed and rear offspring. In 19th century circus beast wagons isn’t appropriate, appropriate way to keep a big cat. No it’s not. So you want to have animals in an environment that, I mean, as, as they used to say about enrichment, the point is to enable your animals to express as weighed a range of their behavior as is possible. So if you’re creating an environment that allows for that, you’re creating animals that are in a, a very positive welfare situation, but also makes them much and they’re offspring, much better candidates, for example, for reintroduction or to go on to be, to be good breeders when they mature, you know, if they have the right social upbringing. We know, for example, with bears that bear cubs should stay with our moms for at least two years.
