THE ROLE OF SEPARATE RESEARCH UNITS IN A ZOO

"The cost of not doing research" is high (Gibson 1980). This is an accepted dictum in medicine. Physicians have accepted the notion that, if indeed we wish to free ourselves of some of the major scourges of illness, the latest of which is AIDS and a good example it is, then investigative efforts are an absolute necessity. We accept the fact that, without a clear understanding of the nature of the virus that causes AIDS, without knowing its receptor sites, the DNA make-up, the mechanisms of immune defense systems of the body and other aspects of this complex disease, a meaningful therapy, let alone vaccine will never come about. We have thus eliminated rickets, tuberculosis, childbed fever, poliomyelitis and other dreaded diseases of the past. And, in part for this reason, we have multiplied. Zoos are remiss in not having made similar progress in their evolution and it is high time they catch up with these developments (Benirschke 1987).

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