I think there’s always going to be a little bit of competition, which is not a bad thing. I think it’s a good thing between zoological parks. Today I think a good thing that’s come out of the zoo field that I see a massive change in is the ability to cooperate and share knowledge. That wasn’t always the case. In my early years, if a zoo director or his staff, if they were involved in the breeding or maintaining of a rare species, they didn’t want to share that information, because they had it and they were the only ones that wanted to keep this animal. It was their thing, but that has changed dramatically and it’s necessary. My God, we’re all after the same thing, and we’re losing species at an alarming rate and we continue to lose them. And if we didn’t cooperate, shame on us.
