And Mexico City had also been given a pair. And, and they were one, I think at the time they were the only pair that were breeding and they produced the whole succession of females, four or five young females and then lost their breeding male. So, and they didn’t approach us. What I, what I felt was, look, we’ve got a viable breeding female, if we’re gonna get anything moving in the panda world, they’d been the story of chichi and anan, you know, the Moscow Panda and the London female and all the sort of hullabaloo over that in the, probably in the fifties, fifties, sixties, that hadn’t worked out apart from a lot of diplomacy and, and obviously some of the other zoos were pretty reluctant to move their pandas around. But what I suggested to Mexico City was we would give them the London mail, but on condition that the, the facilities of Mexico City were, were rebuilt because they were, they were pretty awful. And so it was that we came to a deal with Ed Raska at Cincinnati, that he would take our male panda for six months, would create a big sort of marketing hullabaloo around it raise, I think at the time it something well over a million dollars anyway from that exercise would then use that to rebuild. And a million dollars went a long way. We are looking at, what, nearly 40 years ago now, a million dollars went a long way in Mexico City.
