Well, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I knew I needed to bring animals in because if we were gonna make money, the kids weren’t gonna come to see plants and hike. ‘Cause again, Colorado Desert’s pretty barren even at its best and so I said to the board, when we designed our very first building, I said, I’m gonna design some small animal units like you saw at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum for lizards and kangaroo rats and ground squirrels and snakes. And he said, “Oh, okay.” He said, “Okay.” And I said some desert tortoises and an exhibit outside the building and, “Oh, okay.” And then as part of those, right then back in 1972, I said, we’re also, I said, I wanna show people, begin to make people understand that these animals look the way they look, and these plants look the way they look because they’re living on a desert and they have to do, they have to evolve to live in that environment and whether you’re in a desert here in the Coachella Valley, or if you’re in a desert in the Sahara or in the Namib, your plant’s gonna have structurally very similar and an animal’s gonna have to structurally be very similar. And I said, “So, I’m gonna bring in a few of those.” “Well, okay.” And so, from the day we opened the first big animal exhibit in 1972, we had jerboas and kangaroo rats. And we had some euphorbia does that look like ocotillos, and they were shaped like ocotillos but they were euphorbia’s from Africa. And so, we started doing comparative and nobody really thought about it. I knew where I was going, ultimately, which is bigger and better every day, but it seemed to make sense.
