One thing that we wanted to do is bring people and animals together. We often thought that the public seeing an animal behind glass or at a distance, if we could get people and animals to have contact, at least in certain areas, it would improve the visitor’s experience. So we began to develop, rather than- In the early days in Cincinnati, we had the old Barnum kind of animal shows, you know, where chimps were riding bicycles, and they were doing handstands with the keeper and, you know, all kinds of silly things, and I eventually was able to get rid of those shows and replace them with animal demonstrations that were actually- And this is where we had a cheetah, and that cheetah would eventually- A lady by the name of Cathryn Hilker loved cats, and she began to develop a program just emanating around cats, and she would take this animal out to various schools, and began a program that the developed funding for Africa. They’ve done all kinds of marvelous things in setting cheetah areas aside in Namibia. And they’ve had great work with researchers and it’s just gone on beyond. Today, we’ve developed, we just finished a new exhibit where they actually do cheetah races, where they show the cats actually running down an artificial rabbit, and it’s marvelous, the public just loves that. But that’s getting people involved, and that’s what you have to do. A zoo without community support is not, it’s a collection of animals and in today’s world, that’s not enough.
