He did not have a single consultant. I learned over the years that he had virtually no experience in mammals and birds, but yet he built these exhibits. And all of them, almost every one of them had major design flaws in them. So, from that time in becoming director in ’76 until probably ’85, let’s say, over that 10-year period, I spent rebuilding the original zoo. We had some animal escapes due to some design flaws. We had… The centerpiece of the zoo when Mehrtens built it, oddly, well, two odds, oddly enough was a birdhouse, and I say oddly because even though he did have extensive background and was very good as a herpetologist, he didn’t build a reptile house. There were no reptiles in the zoo.
