Of course I knew I had a burden in terms of the half developed Tropic World building. And yet there were other opportunities that were to come, that I could facilitate in terms of the improvement, development of the institution. And one of the things that we had gotten started in that direction was during Crowcroft’s time was the, so to speak, the predatory ecology exhibits added to the outside of the existing lion house where we perfected some of the techniques using, not gunite, but plastics in terms of simulation of natural environments. And I’d been very encouraged by that development in terms of having, say, Hagenbach’s grandson stand on little bridge between one section of those exhibits and say, “If grandfather had only seen this.” So I knew what could be done, although limited by finances, and so forth, and was the challenge of making Tropic World complete and respectable.
