Well, one thing of course that Peter brought was interest in the, shall we say, technical scientific sides of the business. And so we, for instance, hired a man with a master’s in nutrition Bruce Brewer to head our commissary, our animal supply division, animal food supply division. And it was steps like that that certainly made a difference. And in that particular case, it led to, I would say, a signal advance in terms of our understanding of the maintenance of animal populations over a long time in limited situations. Bruce Brewer, he got a little bored with the animal food supply business and really assuring that it had adequate nutrients bases in the supplies that were offered to the various creatures. So Bruce, I actually then moved into a keeper position in our lion house, which was still in fairly primitive, traditional barred cages inside with the big, big inclusions outside. But one day I was walking through the lion house as Peter Crowcroft’s deputy or associate curator for research and education, I was walking through the lion house and Bruce signaled me and indicated that he felt he could contribute more in terms of the welfare of the animals and the longterm welfare of the species that we were keeping. And so I encouraged him to go back to school and he took off for Cornell to do his graduate work on animal population studies and in particular, researching the investigation of inbreeding.
