Everybody knew he was Jimmy and with his vocabulary, certainly couldn’t call him Janet. So despite the fact that he laid an egg, we still called him Jimmy. And then there was a wattled crane, wonderful bird, the Hugenbeck, Lorenz hugenbeck back brought that wattled crane, one that was an adult from Germany to the St. Louis Zoo. And when I went to the Bronx Zoo from St. Louis, I discovered there was a female there, but no male. So I called Marlin Perkins, who was at that time at the St. Louis Zoo and said, I need that male wattled crane, and we will trade you whatever you would like pretty much to get it. So he sent that a wattled crane to the Bronx Zoo, where it lived for many, many years and produce many youngsters with that female and it became a very special animal to me, having gone through the hagenbecks at Marlin Perkins.
