At that time, I think we felt that there’s not an issue, the numbers game is nothing to worry about. The supplies are endless and we indeed could or would work with dealers, and bring in birds, mammals, reptiles, you name it. Finally, people started recognizing the fact that it wasn’t so, that certain kinds of animals were in trouble in their native area. And so the bans were put on in various rules by the zoo associations went into effect, and then various governmental rules also went into effect about trying to import various, especially the great apes, the gorilla, chimp, and orang. And the conservation ethic kind of took hold, and just grew as I recall it during that time, during the 60s.
