So it was a quite good facility. And so I established quotas in the animal hospital and began dallying about in terms of what kinds of studies I might carry on. And in the process, of course, I got to know Robert Snedigar, the curator of the reptile house. And also it happened he had some very fine creatures in the form of the Surinam toad and he had experience. He himself had come out of the American Museum of Natural History where he’d assisted G.K. Noble who’d done the original substantial work on the behavior and biology of the amphibians. And Snedigar had had his own field experience quite similar to my adventures in The Bahamas. And indeed there was a book written about the expedition he was on down in Guyana and other parts of South America. And it was so much like what I had experienced, I felt that there was no use putting out another book on the same tribulations in terms of field experiences, but Snedigar was pretty comfortable with a colleague, especially from the museum field.
