And somehow he had this network of people that were Purple Martin fans. And somehow he made connection with somebody who had found a pure white purple Martin that had fallen out of the Martin House and had taken it to the zoo. And so they hand reared this purple Martin, and it became quite tame and it fit into the bird house perfectly. It would fly, fly around. And when Gene realized that th this purple Martin was being fed on mouse pups, it completely blew his mind because purple Martins are aerial forages that forage on the wing. That’s what they’re built for. And here was one whose behavior was so distorted by captivity that it came down like a pet cat and roosted next to a bowl of mouse pups and gobbled mouse pups out of that bowl or out of that dish. And it just blew Jean mind.
