Well I think in animal handling, the concept of hand raising animals and having tame animals was a big thing. And in fact, we hand raised a baby lesser kudu and that female became so tame she tamed on the entire herd. So it really played a role in our captive breeding program. But today, I think hands-off is more important. Because now the animals are not imprinted on people, but they interact among themselves in their own way. And I think the whole concept of animal management today is without as little human interference at all in their normal behavior so that they produce, reproduce as naturally as possible. And also if you wanna reintroduce ’em back in the wild, you hope that they maintain that capability of living as a wild animal and not dependent on human life.
