Well because of my relationship with AZA and working with the Captive Breeding Survival Group, research became very important to me. And so I did make sure that all of my curatorial staff were involved in some research program. But with emphasis out of the veterinary hospital, we added a reproductive physiologist to the staff. We began to do not only emphasis on breeding endangered species but also conception, planning so that we were not producing unnecessary animals as well. We start using animal conception, birth conception in certain populations so we didn’t produce animal surplus. By then, we no longer were trying to sell animals to any animal dealer or private entities. We only sold to established zoos’ members of AZA. And so we were only trying to produce just the right number of animals to maintain the breeding population without producing.
