Well, everybody likes to think of sexy animals, and a lot of times everyone thought the koala bear was an animal that was really unusual and sexy. And eventually we ended up getting some koalas, but another animal that I personally was endeared about, and excited about when I first saw him out at the Vancouver Aquarium on the west coast, in Canada are the sea otters. There’s something about them that is to me, total wondrous, playful, great animals. And of course, we never really had the physical facilities to properly have and care for sea otters, so we never got any during my tenure. The koalas, we finally figured out how to get the food and the animals on loan from San Diego, so that we were able to do that. I think by and large, considering that Lincoln Park Zoo is physically compact and relatively small, there was never any great desire to try and bring in other kinds of animals ’cause we had a great representative collection. We had good spread of mammal, bird, reptile, and some invertebrates and things. And so that I think I was content with the collection we were able to have, and exhibit, and care for.
