I, I think the, I think the big thing, and it’s a, it’s a little bit different now than it was certainly when I, you know, when I started, when I did my residency, we had keepers that had been at the St. Louis Zoo for many, many years that may not have even had a high school education, but they had 20, 30 or more years of experience working with their animals. And they were very bright. They were folks that knew that animal’s behavior inside and out. And because I got a doctor’s degree did not make me superior to those people in the knowledge that I was relying on. You know, I wasn’t relying on the fact that they could write a term paper. I wanted to know what that jaguar or what that lion or what that antelope was gonna do, how it was feeling. And again, in, in that area, those people had knowledge way beyond what I did.
