Because we wanna educate our public about where these animals live and what are the threats to their continued existence or to their habitat type of thing. Again, the record keeping that has been generated through a ZA animal record keeping systems, pretty sophisticated conservation breeding programs. There’s all these things with which the curator should not only be a direct part of but at the least has to be conversant with should understand it. You may have an Aquarius that says, yeah, you know, I’d like to be the stud bookkeeper for this species here and you know, I’ll keep you informed, but I’ll, I’ll be the lead in this, you know, I’ll be the one representing shadow aquarium and I’ll be the one that, you know, can come back to you and say, Hey, you know, we should look at acquiring this species. Or you know what, this species is somewhat common and everybody’s got ’em. We don’t really need them. You know, maybe we deescalate this species in our population making those type of calls. But the, I think the variety of responsibilities has grown tremendously today for a curator. And then again, getting back to the legislative and regulatory arena, it’s in your best interest to be conversant with those people that might have oversight of your collection or your collecting methods or whatever.
