There is actually however, a great many people who fancy themselves as curators in waiting. And the zoo responsibility is to establish more training programs and a good many curators came out of programs in New York I’m happy to say, and became directors or became curators in other places and that’s true of several zoos, which have had training programs. There really is not a good way to train curators except through the ancient process of apprenticeship. You go to the zoo as a trained zoologists and there you learned that most of what you learned as a zoologist has little application when it comes to actually keeping an animal alive in a hands-on fashion. This has to be trained. You have to learn it. I don’t think there are any other answers.
