Well, the profession has evolved so much, whether it be, that was 43 years ago, opposed the last 25 years in the field, when I was first started in the business, Lincoln Park, which was considered a small zoo, had a massive collection. And there was probably as many animals off exhibit at Lincoln Park as were on exhibit. They were stashed in every nook and cranny of the basement of every building. I mean, yeah, the public would have no concept of what was on exhibit at the zoo, and like I said, they had, massive collection of species, you look at the inventory, I don’t know what 3000 animals, 600 species, I mean, as you mentioned, I mean, the species number, the specimen species numbers of zoos have changed dramatically. I mean, you know, A, the death of the postage stamp collection where prior to the sixties, it was one or two or three of everything, and people just wanted to buy, build these massive collections of a little of everything, opposed to, as zoo professionals learned in terms of managing species. Some of the stuff was by choice, in terms of better management, you have to add, some of the stuff was forced because the animals weren’t available as they used to be, readily available or available at all, it shows a wonderful progression for many animals. Now, it’s not all roses. In my opinion, there are some problems that we’ve certainly talked about throughout the afternoon in terms of managing a collection of animals and what you have to do, if one were to turn the clock back and talk to me 30 years ago, and tell me that they wanted, or could train an animal to present itself, to extend its paw out.
