Elephants and edentates are an interesting story for my, in my whole zoo career. The animal that I was most drawn to and knew had the potential to do me the most harm, were elephants. I, to this day, I visit zoos and I’ve visited zoos that have elephants just to look at elephants. I count as among my many blessings, my ability to interact, essentially, personality to personality with elephants at Lincoln Park Zoo, and to be part of a cooperative effort to get our then female elephant with a male to produce a baby. And the birth of that infant after innumerable years or months of logistics and the strategic moves and commitments was definitely one of the most memorable events in my zoo history. Now in the zoo’s history, sometimes bad things happen. Animal injuries, animal escapes, so forth. There were two incidents that you were involved with.
