But it’s the same building, and that building is just fabulous architecturally. And the primate house, the bird house, and what we call the antelope areas, big rocks area, red rocks area, it’s some really, and our bear pits, were all historical structures that were built, I mean, the bear pits, for people who don’t know, I remember as a kid coming to the zoo and thinking, “Oh, well that’s why they built the zoo there, because they had these rock bluffs.” Well, those weren’t there naturally. Back in 1919 through 1921, they went down to the Mississippi River Bluffs and actually took molds of the bluffs, came back and reconstructed those bluffs, the molds, there at the zoo, and poured the concrete behind that to make those bear pits. And the big rock areas where the antelope are, it looks like granite boulders. And for most people who come there they go, “It’s kind of weird,” but it’s very similar to an area called Elephant Rocks about an hour and a half south of St. Louis, which is these big granite boulders that look just like that, and when they built those, they used granite in there. And so saving some of the old structures that have historical value was important in any master plan. And then there are some areas that, gosh, there isn’t anything worth saving here in our old lion house, and we built Big Cat Country. And building River’s Edge was taking a different view of exhibitry, in the sense of an immersion exhibit where the visitor is looking through a certain area or window of opportunity to see this particular animal in its natural state, as opposed to say, where in other areas where it’s all open, and you have that.
