We often hear that zoos should be run like a business and animals should pay their way. I have trouble thinking about a hummingbird paying its way, it’d be a very small way I suppose, and a very expensive route to go. The fact is that businesses don’t last. We’re trying to do things as forever. We’re trying to sustain wild animal populations indefinitely. The vast majority of the biggest American corporations have declined and died. The majority of thhe S&P 500 disappear in a period of 30 or 40 years, or at least decline. Wild animals can’t sustain that, decline in a zoo means death.
