There were complaints, there were humane organizations, (indistinct) against them. And everybody was saying that the New York Zoological Society should take them over. And we explored various prospects. We said, look, we’ll take over the Central Park Zoo because its position assures its attendance. The other two zoos do not have assured attendance. And that was the beginning of a lot of negotiation. Finally, we agreed that we would try to take them over then we had all sorts of problems about who was going to pay for what, how much make-over we were going to be allowed to make and what the collections would be like. Both the Prospect Park Zoo and the Central Park Zoo had elephants, rhinos and hippos in tiny little spaces, no bigger than this room.
