And I presume you do give advice, but what kind of advice would you give a student interested in the career working with animals are at a zoo society or the zoo, what would you say to them. I’d say to them all complete your degree. In this day and age to be in the zoological profession, you probably need to have not just a bachelor’s degree, but also a master’s, if not more. There are more specialized opportunities than there ever have been. There are computer needs, there’s record needs. There’s veterinary needs, there’s veterinary support needs. There’s all kinds of opportunities. Get your education, take whatever internships you can take, volunteer in animal-related positions, do as much as you can do to demonstrate, first of all, what your interest is real to yourself and then to the profession and to the end it kind of is remarkable that it just happened.
