Well, other than Michael Robinson, every zoo director I’ve worked with had worked in a zoo before they became director of the zoo. They all had either animal experience in the wild or experience working in a zoo. I think it’s very hard for someone who is the director of parks to sort of come in, or a businessman to come in and take control of a zoo without a good animal staff underneath them, because they just don’t understand a zoo. A zoo may be a museum, but it’s a museum with a living collection. And just the fact that you have a living collection makes things that much more difficult to do. So I think you need to at least have some knowledge of what’s involved. You can’t be just a, you know, look at numbers. You need to know what the mission of the zoo is.
