We had an aardvark at the zoo, that one of the previous curators had purchased, 10, 15 years before I got there and he’d never been on exhibit. He was living in the kangaroo house, in our old kangaroo house there and all those years, he was there, and no one ever saw him. And I was looking at the International Zoo Yearbook, saw Miami Zoo has three or four or seven aardvarks, I forget how many they had but I contacted them. and said, “We’ve got an old aardvark here. Would you be interested in having him we could give him to you?” And they said, “Sure, we’ll take him.” Then the Miami headlines run with, “Old Gentleman Retires from the Bronx to Miami Beach” and we sent the old male aardvark down to Miami. Well, they put him with one or two of their females. He probably bred them. And last I heard, went through something like nine in his final year.
