I hope so. You know, I just don’t know about the preventative medicine program at many other zoos, but I’m a big believer in that just because of the problem of manipulating our animals for diagnostic and other procedures, and I’m also a very strong proponent of proactive aggressive diagnostic thing, like if a zoo animal shows or a wildlife animal shows some kind of signs that you’re seeing, that animal is a lot sicker than a domestic animal would be. And so I like to be proactive, and that’s one thing I said, you know, “Let’s go ahead and anesthetize it. It’s gonna be safer to anesthetize it now than in a week later when it’s sicker.” And that was kind of maybe one of the hard things to get started at National when I started, ’cause I remember one time with Golden lion tamarins, and you remember when they were the Rembrandt species, the National Zoo had a pretty good collection of them at that time and they had ’em in a gang cage. And I remember Deborah Kleinman, who I’ve worked with, we’ve agreed, but hopefully most times, and disagreed, but you know, it was a balance, and I remember she finally, she said, “Okay, well now, you know, some things had changed.” Said “I’ve got a sick tamarin, and I’d like to have you look at it.” I said, “Great”, ’cause that was kind of unique that I was gonna get to look at some of the tamarin.
