I think it’s just an effort to make zoos feel good that they’re trying to maintain elephants. I think it’s a losing battle. I think that the elephant collections in this country, they’re short on females. They’re absolutely short on females that are young enough to produce young. They’ve lost a lot of offspring. The only zoos that are doing any kind of major breeding, you can count on one hand, if less, I mean, hell, Ringling Brothers is the only major facilities doing any major breeding of elephants right now and producing them in a large number. But I don’t know what they’re gonna do with those elephants if they keep breeding them successfully. I think if they’re really serious about saving elephants in this country, they ought to tell every zoo in the country that’s got elephants that they’re gonna have to send them to a single facility where they can be managed and possibly bred.
