So the monkeys from monkey island, instead of going in winter quarters where they couldn’t be seen, would go into the monkey house. And then they built a large pin for a bison, an elk. And then Preston Hale was the one who built the first units for carnivores, lions and bears. And then they built the yard for George the tapir. And they had a lagoon and they put waterbirds on that. So that’s kinda what the zoo was when it came in 1963. But that’s how it came about.
