Or is it just as easy to say once you have a master’s or PhD, you’re certainly qualified. That’s a very good question about what’s the future. What’s the future in terms of animal management, particularly at the curatorial level, it’s a very good query indeed. If there’s anything in the profession that concerns a lot of us it’s that there are not capable, competent, trained animal managers available for zoos to use. And it’s, part of that is that the profession, or now, as it’s known the industry, hasn’t made a concerted effort to provide the opportunities, and those include mentoring, they include training, they include experiential kinds of things, where you visit other institutions with more seasoned staff, and you learn the techniques that you need to manage your own collection. I think we’re falling very short. If you said to me today, name six people, if you were the director of zoo X and you had to develop a curatorial staff and the curatorial staff was going to be individuals that are between the ages of 25 and 40. Tell me who those individuals were.
