Every time I did accreditation inspections, I’d have a hot dog at the snack bar. Just wander off, get a hot dog at the snack bar and see what quality it was. Because when I first started at Pittsburgh, our hot dogs, in the center, were green. They were not something you wanted to eat, and I love hot dogs. So that kind of thing is very, very important, because our role, in my humble opinion, in zoos, is to educate people and to teach them about conservation and wildlife, and be excited about coming to the zoo and seeing the animals, and caring about, you gotta get people to care. If people don’t care about animals, then they’re not going to send money to conservation. They’re not gonna support a research project about animals, because they have to care about ’em. And it’s not just on National Geographic.
