So you can create life in a zoo, although you normally do not create art in an art museum. I think these fundamental differences make the zoo ever so much more interesting. But if I were the city council of a municipality, thinking about creating a zoo, I would think about it very carefully. But even more importantly is to address the situation that exists, where we have cities that did take on the responsibility of creating a zoo or encouraging zoo to be built within their limits, and then they decide when bad times are coming, that they will cut the zoo’s support to the same extent as they cut the support of other institutions that are not so vulnerable to the loss of support. It’s pretty hard to starve a statue. It’s even harder to put a drop cloth over a giraffe or put a hummingbird on half rations. This kind of thinking is never, I think, wow, maybe that’s too much, it’s very rarely considered by those who create zoos. Now it’s gone to a further step just in the past generation, because now you’re not only trying to maintain the species in the zoo, you’re trying to maintain the species on earth because it’s disappearing.
