Most years before we immigrated to North America, some, I mean, I can remember very vividly my first trip to London Zoo was in the summer of 1966. We were down on a family holiday, beautiful hot day, which most Scottish people are not acclimated for. And my parents being exhausted and allowing a a 9-year-old child just to wander off around the zoo on his own, which I was, I was having no argument with that. And there was a couple of zoo programs on, on British television, on the segment of British TV that was aimed at children. So this kind of four o’clock to five o’clock window and one was called Zoo Time and it was hosted by Desmond Morris, who was used to be the curator of mammals here. And, and so when I visited the, what is now called the Cassen House, which was originally the Elephant Rhino Pavilion and the Snowed Avery, a large walkthrough, Avery had just been opened. So, and I’d seen them on tv. And so seeing one, seeing London Zoo in the flesh, the one thing that was disappointing is chichi, the giant panda was on breeding loan to Moscow that summer.
