I would guess that almost every zoo director, aquarium director will find dealing with the local polity quite frustrating from time to time. But in all fairness, I’ve found some animal behavior pretty doggone frustrating. I shall not forget a sea lion whose pup fell in the water at the sea lion pool. And the poor little guy was trying to get out and there was an edge, there was a little steep and he didn’t find the shallow edge where he should have gone out. And she sat there right above him, looking at him. And they both talked back and forth. The little fellow was getting desperate and she didn’t help him out. And I said, “You damn fool, take him out.” But she didn’t.
