I think at Lincoln Park as I reflect back on times that I’ve been there, I think, and it wasn’t me personally, that had much to do with it, but the fact that it remained and still is, was a free open facility for all. I always felt good about that and I still feel good about that today. Politically, that could change in the next 50 or 100 years for fiscal reasons, but as long as it’s possible to have free access to this special area of town, I feel that that’s something I was privileged to be part of and help facilitate. I think the fact that we no longer have the so-called animal in jail concept, where we used to be able to walk around and see the barred monkey cages, and the barred cat cages, and the bear dens that were almost psychologically unfit for a human to work in much less for the animal to live in, this is all pretty much history now. And I think that this is good, and I guess I have a strong personal bias about one animal and that’s the gorilla, because I think that I was privileged to be able to work with a sort of foundation group of such animals in our facility, going back to Bushman, and then Sinbad, and from there on through Otto and all the other wonderful animals we’ve had. I don’t know the number today, but I’m guessing it’s give or take 50 baby gorillas have been born at Lincoln Park since 1970 when the first one was born. And I think that I can always look back and enjoy the growth of the Gorilla Species Survival Plan and the interaction. Gorillas were very much part of a community.
