Most of the educational work that we did was based upon schools sending busloads of kids. We’d set up guided tours in the early morning and took them through the park and explained to them all of the different animals and what they do. And then they would spend a half day watching the other animals and some of the shows before they’d go back. That was the majority of the beginnings of an educational process there. But I wanted more than that. I just thought that I wanted to know more, I wanted the children to know more. And I wanted to go kind of go back to my days of picking a starfish out a tide pool and taking it home and letting it die and dry out, to hang onto a netting in the patio of our house, thinking, “Well, that was not the right thing to do.” So I wanted people to have that same type of respect and realize you don’t have to touch it. You can just look at it.
