It seems to be something that has kind of fallen by the wayside. The the zoo community went through a, a phase of doing that and it, it certainly, it’s, there has been, you know, mutually beneficial relationships in that way, often through exchanges of animals. You know, the, the sister relationship that Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands had with Shanghai Zoo in, in China allowed Rotterdam to get species that no one else had in Europe. Really interesting stuff. I think that in this day and age, I think, I think it’s, it’s become more important because we talk, we talk about areas of important areas of biodiversity and range country zoos, particularly in places like the Neotropics or Southeast Asia Zoo collections in these places are centers of biodiversity. And that’s just the, nevermind the, the wild animals that are living on site, but the, the actual captive population, the zoo population. And, but a lot of these places don’t necessarily have the skills to do their animal collection justice or to make the contribution that they could make. They’re just, they, they’re just not able for it.
