They were the group of animals that were being highly threatened. So that general interest started me into a really intensive- I tried a number of species and worked out husbandry, and I even broke it down into sort of three areas that you, temperature zones. Amphibians I found were very sensitive and vulnerable to the narrow ranges of temperatures that they could tolerate, that was one factor. So it worked out very well. And once I established all of that, then the interest waned. One thing I was going to do, and I’m sorry now- I had my hands on, you wouldn’t believe the number of species of salamanders. I had run into Mexico and collected and I had collectors collecting for me. I had about everything you could describe, some of which weren’t even described, and I was going to photograph every one and then do a book and I never, never made that happen.
