More typical collections have a little of both from around the world. (sighs) Again, I think it’s really what makes sense for your resources and in the community you’re in. If you’re far away from any quote, “Major zoo,” and you have a local public that would have to drive five or six hours to take your kids to a zoo, then if you have the resources, maybe you are a little tiny but general zoo to give your public a view of a few broad things. If you’re in an environment which is harsh and impossible, then maybe you better try to stretch those dollars by managing a collection that you don’t have to struggle too much with the local environment, physical environment you’re living in. If you’re in a really cold area, then stay with a group of animals that can tolerate that just so your overhead isn’t too high, and look around for what your community needs, because you’re gonna depend on them for funding to a certain degree. If you can do the job of making your community happy, keeping the animals healthy and do it with endangered species, then by all means do it, but sometimes either you can’t keep those species or they make no sense to your community or to your collection and I wouldn’t just keep it because it’s an endangered species, even though it just makes no sense either if you’re trying to build an organization that your community can support. So, really it’s very specific to the community you’re in as to what you should do. Zoos in many cases today are afraid to confront animal welfare rights groups that are anti zoo.
