And, oh, by the way, he’s now the acting director, and you’re the general curator again. So now I’m demoted. After about, I don’t know, two weeks, I’m no longer the acting director. So once Don Barton walked away, Dr. Schroeder asked me the most profound question that I think says so much about John Mehrtens. He said, “Who’s John Mehrtens?” Now, here was a man who knew the zoo profession forwards, backwards, inside out. He’d never heard of him. And I told him, gave him a, you know, sort of a Reader’s Digest version of his history and how things were, and he said, “Okay, we’ll deal with that later.” He said, “Take me on a tour of the zoo.” The first exhibit we had was a flamingo exhibit, just like at the time the San Diego Zoo’s first exhibit was a flamingo exhibit. Although for some odd reason, again, this goes back to Mehrtens, there was a three-and-a-half-foot tall concrete wall surrounding the flamingo exhibit.
