I think we’re back to topics that we’ve covered and that’s, you know, euthanasia is a management tool for the for, for population, for species survival. And the, I think what is an, an issue that hasn’t quite surfaced yet, and that’s dealing with geriatric animals and being able to make the decision to, to terminate an animal’s life before it becomes so debilitated. It was, and when I was working in Rome, it was a really hard one to get across just because of the culture. But in sort of UK zoos I worked at, you know, once you’ve had the conversations, I mean this is, you know, this is one of my golden rules of being a good curator, is that you need to have all of the hard con conversations in advance. So you know, the, the euthanasia as a management tool conversation, you need to have it over coffee and in the pub talking about hypothetical situations so that when the real situation arises, you’ve already had the discussion. People already have the mental ammunition to be able to intelligently participate in that decision making process. But you have to have the, the, the conversations, well beforehand, the mistake that almost every zoo makes is they don’t have the conversation with their staff until the actual event is upon them. And then it’s actually too late.
