And this was a night call two, three in the morning on a rainy, thundering, lightning evening. When I got to the zoo and the keeper said, “Doc, we’ve got this animal, she’s trying to deliver.” And we were able to rope her and get her head and corner the stall. And I was able to go in and physically help deliver this little calf. And for me it was, of course, personally satisfying to have a good result medically, but word went around the zoo, that maybe that new doctor isn’t such a bad guy after all. And I think that that helped establish to the keepers that I was perfectly happy to listen, and learn, and in turn share whatever medical knowledge I had, that would be part of a team effort. So that’s kind of the way it went in the early years, and it worked. When you became director of the zoo, you established the Zoo Medical Committee.
