I just think kind of being a cus custodian of the Conservation Research Center and being there, being responsible for some of the directions it took in endangered, you know, in pursuing the endangered species research projects and that sort of thing like with the black-footed ferrets and Scott Erickson’s work on the Pacific birds, endangered Hawaiian birds and that sort of thing. Maybe taking, you know, bringing on staff who changed directions because in the early days our bird programs were focused mainly on artificial incubation and taking eggs out of nests and out nest boxes and putting ’em in the incubator and then hand rearing the birds. So they ended up being imprinted on people rather than other birds of their own species. And when Scott came on board, he really wanted to stop that. He wanted to get the birds of breeding and rearing young themselves so that when you did reintroductions of hooping cranes, they didn’t think they were sandhill cranes or wherever the surrogate species was that he was working for. He, he pointed out that, you know, the, once they were imprinted on a species, they don’t tra transfer over to their own species that easily. It’s a pretty much a non reversible process. Sometimes you might be able to do it, but not always.
