So it’s like his whole life was love. He’d wanted to set up a zoo. And so he saw this opportunity of doing it and he said, “We’re gonna build it on this promontory.” He went about the world on a study tour when he went to do World Bank stuff, and it was go visit the National Zoo and zoos around the world. He was looking for a consultant on these tours and finally bumped into Colombo. And he liked the zoo and he talked to the young director, Lindy Allison, hired him as consultant. He knew very much what he wanted. He wanted a zoo where animals were respected, where the enclosures were decent. He had seen a lot of horrible zoos in his visits.
