When I started in the business, I guess I can almost say I lived through the golden era of zoos. The AZA was a small organization. The AZAP was a small organization of zoo directors and a few staff people, and we would get around and talk about animal problems and diets, et cetera, et cetera, and the camaraderie was fantastic. There wasn’t the concern at that time of endangered species. We didn’t have the problems, we didn’t have very many regulations. Today zoos are probably have more regula- The only thing that has more regulations than the zoological field is today’s banking. I mean, we’re heavily regulated by many different departments of the government, plus within those departments, there are many regulations. So we have a plethora of regulatory agencies that overshadow us and it makes life much more difficult.
