He wanted to have it a place to help build up sustainable herds. And he saw diminishing numbers of certain species and that obviously made sense for more room and space. I mean, you saw it with, you know… In his case it was things like Bactrian Camels and Père David Deer. And they had the space in the things for big groups of Maned Wolves and Tree Kangaroos ‘cos they had all these buildings. I mean, this thing had an incredible number of buildings that were on it that didn’t take too much to fix up for moving over to animals. But it was the ownership and the space of the land plus the fact that it was close to National Zoo. Now I don’t think he saw so much at the campus that’s been built up there, but I think it’s exceeded what his expectations were as far as some of the research and some of the educational opportunities at the scientific level that are going on there at that campus.
