They’ve come with maybe 10 hours, 12-hour flight, they’re exhausted, they’re drained. We cleaned them, I’d go to the airport. In most cases, the livestock remain there. But usually, they were unaccompanied. It would be baby elephants that would feed on a nursing bottle made for cattle. Louis Goebel brought in perhaps, at least two dozen, one at a time, nursing baby elephants that did beautifully coming through. He’d bring in baby arangs, baby tigers. The most critical shipment, the one that took the most planning before it came through was the three platypus that David Flay brought through from Australia in 1957, to the Bronx.
