The level of technology, the level of expertise is greatly expanded since I was there, especially in the beginning days. To the point that you gotta be at least conversant with the record keeping system, for instance, or the stud book, various stud books that are appropriate to your collection and understand your level of involvement. You know, you may just be a holding facility for animals. You may not be asked to breed them or anything, but there’s all different permutations and one must become familiar with what’s out there, what’s available, how can we best utilize our collection in furthering conservation programming and education. The other thing, because I was a member of it, the accreditation commission is a wonderful asset of she aquarium and of the whole zoo aquarium community that are members. We get examined every five years and it’s very thorough. And I always try to advocate to our staff when we are getting ready. I said, you know, they’re not coming here to try and punish us and say, you know, this is wrong, this is wrong.
