Well I think it’s a zoo director’s responsibility and his opportunity to encourage every keeper under his umbrella to become the best that they can possibly be, to encourage ’em to develop professionally, give them the opportunity, give them the support to reach that goal. Train curators to be keepers, train keepers to be potential curators and then train curators to be potential zoo directors. And if you follow that philosophy, I learned that from Marlin Perkins. If you follow that philosophy, you’ll be producing curators. There won’t be a shortage of curators. I think it’s a director problem and not a curator problem. At times and you’ve indicated that at the St Louis Zoo, many of the curators have longevity in their jobs.
