And then they’d come to Marineland to see their animals, if they lived. Of course, if they didn’t live, we would call them up and tell them, “This animal didn’t live, and here’s why.” What we found, and I’ve had the experience, the necropsy, or autopsy, hundreds of marine animals that came up on the beaches, and I gotta tell you, that the ocean isn’t a very clean place. You would find worms in their stomach, their intestines, their livers, their brains, parasites that were just destroying their bodies, and pneumonia, kidney failure with stones. It was just weird to experience that side of the business, where, on the other side of the business, we were curating a healthy collection. But to watch what was going on in the environment affecting wild populations. We worked with the Los Angeles County Museum and veterinarians would come out and help us. And it was just deleterious to see that happening and mind-boggling to see that happen. And one of the things that we started to do is working with different people, especially a parasitologist, Dr. Murray Daley out of Long Beach State University.
