It it led folks to discover that there was a real weak spot that animal rights advocates could use to go after zoos. And, and that was with these, so like, like a lot of folks in our country, we don’t talk about death a lot and zoos didn’t talk about animal deaths, but every single animal in the zoo, just like every one of us is going to die. And so what what was discovered, and this was an article that was in the Washington Post, it was picked up by the Los Angeles newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, that said, normally in a, in a particular year there might be several animal deaths at the National Zoo. And in the past few years there, you know, something like 10 animals have died. Well, the National Zoo at the time had a collection of 3000 animals. And if you take several to bean three that would give the average animal at the National Zoo a lifespan of a thousand years. And the folks at the Washington Post were pretty bright, and these other papers that picked it up, it went completely over their heads. They, they didn’t think animals died in zoos ever.
