The year after I went to work for him, he went to Australia and bought a huge shipment of animals from Australia. It came in to New York in two large groups. One ship couldn’t carry ’em all. There was a tremendous number of birds, roughly 100 cockatoos, parrots and cockatoos. A lot of kangaroos. A lot of kangaroos. The first fall that they were there, well, I had progressed from feeding animals all day to other duties among the 35 or 40 keepers. Among the animals that he brought in from Australia was a large group of wallabies, kangaroos, red kangaroos. A giant kangaroo stands six-feet high in a sitting position.
