If you’re working in the field, studying what prevents an animal’s population from increasing or what is causing it to decrease, you’re likely to get your feet muddy. So this, a shorthand for working directly with wild animals, whether they be up in trees or whether you’re scrambling through the swamp to study a crocodile is muddy boots. So this was something you wanted to do and felt you could do as the director or the general director. What other items did you wanna address or enhance about the zoo operation aside from the conservation end of that, when you took this position. I felt that many zoos were ugly as sin. Not the sin is always ugly, I’m told, but, I felt that there should be a new effort at the Bronx Zoo to do away with ugliness, to present animals as beautiful, to provide exhibits that were as stunningly, beautiful as possible. To make the exhibits, a background. To make the zoo a more wonderful place.
