In hindsight, I look back at times and thought, Well, that’s unfortunate because in no way, did it help me with my pension fund after I went to the zoo. So that was just a services rendered and something that was fun for me to do. My wild animal experience was pretty limited, as I mentioned, I’m a city kid, born and live in the urban area. Going down to the zoo for me, was stimulating and exciting. I didn’t know what most of those animals really were, they were alien names to me. I was concerned, of course, from a safety standpoint of how to work with them and around them. You have to remember that in my early years at Lincoln Park Zoo, which would have been in the late 40s and 50s as the doctor that we had no easy way to handle wild animals. There were no such things as captured guns, and darts, and stuff like that.
