I think the focus really should be on the genetic stability of it and the evolving husbandry care. I hope people aren’t thinking they know everything and they should continue to work it. I think they should also make sure they understand that they’re getting picked on by the animal activists and the extremists, but it’s just the species they’re picking on. And I would hope that the flip side, the other zoos and aquariums that don’t have those species, would try and stand up together and help because, eventually, that fight’s gonna come to their door. We don’t seem to be working well together as a community. As I said, I think all animals are special, whether they’re a dolphin or an elephant or a his hissing cockroach. Zoos and aquarium and marine mammal parks in too many cases today are afraid to confront the animal welfare rights groups that are anti-zoo and aquarium. Sadly, we even have people in top positions in our field who seem in line with what those non-biologists have to say.
