My honest answer is that I believe that the zoo director should be as close to a scientist as possible. I would think that you want a person who is an animal person, a scientist running the zoo with the assistance of a capable team. You need a business manager, you need a financial executive. You need public relations, you need marketing. You need a team of people that can take care of all the dimensions of the zoo while you’re responsible for the overall management. That’s my personal feeling. I think that there’s been times when there’s been businessmen or marketing people or development people that became zoo directors. They had to have a very good animal man taking care of the collection or the zoo went downhill.
