You certainly must operate the zoo sensibly, accountably, transparently, and you must operate it in a business like fashion, but not like a business. You are not trying to make more money for stockholders. You are trying to make wildlife survive longer and make people care about it. That’s a vision, but it doesn’t necessarily bring any bucks in. It is a public trust. It’s a public trust in the way we provide security, the way we provide education, zoos should be seen as the same sort of public responsibility. After all they’re the living elements of the ecology that makes it possible for us to survive as human beings, and darned interesting too. People have talked about, if you have a large body of water like an ocean that kinda takes care of itself.
