Scientific knowledge is important for scientific mileage itself and knowledge itself, but for zoos, I think it’s important to consider the fact that it may or may not be viable. We find certain things, for instance, we’re doing embryo transfer work on a lot of species of animals, artificial insemination on some species and their centers of this certain zoos, the national zoo has been involved in that, the zoo in Columbus, or not Ohio but Missouri, and in Springfield, the university there, San Diego zoo, these are places that have specialized in this and they’re doing great things. But embryo transfer may be an important thing in the future in being able to transport animals across country lines without all the fault or all that’s concerned with disease transmission and this sort of thing. Learning more about the really productive cycles of these animals is important. For instance, the seminal work that was done on elephants on the Eastern cycle was tremendous. That was done by a zoo with the Portland zoo, being the program. And they did this project for over five years, but they found out that it isn’t like most other mammals. We’ve had a lot of work done with camelids, the embryo transfer work, and the artificial insemination techniques have been marvelous.
