Well, they can only have a role in conservation if they are given the opportunity, and if they train themselves in the biology, I hate to see a veterinarian enter into any discussion or activity involving conservation when they don’t know what they’re talking about. And that involves sometimes a different language. We talked about ecologists, biologists. Each of these professions or disciplines has a language. And I think the veterinarians, if they’re gonna be involved in that need to learn so that they can talk to other people about conservation things. I believe that zoos, be they large or small, should be involved in conservation, and veterinarians should be involved in those projects as long as they’re knowledgeable. Conservation should be a budget item in any zoo, but everybody wants to go to Africa or South America to conserve their animals, but the Sacramento Zoo has a very active program going with San Francisco, garter snakes, a few thousand dollars, they’re doing some great things. You don’t need to go outside your community, any community, there are animals that need our attention on a local level.
