If I wasn’t, of course, I couldn’t. I felt that instead of having all the various professional staff and the animal care people interacting with the press, that it made a little more sense that they try to deal directly with me. And I think over the years, I found that they were supportive of the zoo. We tried hard to make them welcome, we tried to deal with them in an intelligent manner. And it’s similar to the humane stories, the so-called people who feel strongly about captive animals, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the PETA, humane people. I realized very early on that don’t fight them, join them. And so I became a board member at the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago, way, way back, ’cause I’d spent some time there as a vet student in the clinic. And I related to them, and as a result felt that we weren’t trying ever to cover up any humane issues at the zoo.
