‘Cause you know, they poop terrible amounts, large amounts, even as they, though, went through their molt, and they would defecate less, obviously, ’cause they were eating less. And then when they started to eat again, we learned the cycle. This really proved to be helpful in a lot of ways because people like Dan Costa and others were studying animals in the Channel Islands, Dr. Costa. A lot of the answers weren’t known. So, in essence, this was a little bit like a puzzle. And the studies that were going on in the wild and the studies that were going on at Marineland were sort of the pieces of that puzzle and we could start fitting the pieces together to sort of complete the picture. So that’s why I still think very strongly today, good zoos and aquariums provide those pieces of the puzzle that make a difference for that puzzle that is gonna save animals. We wouldn’t have black-footed ferrets today or Arabian oryxs out there if we didn’t have the opportunity to learn about them and know how to take care of them and know how to reproduce them.
