How would you like to be our curator?” Well, hell, I grabbed it. I grabbed that. And so the minute I was through with my studies, I went over to the Dallas Zoo. And I’d never really worked in a zoo. I’d been in the, by then, I’d been in San Antonio Zoo, and Houston Zoo, the reptile end of it. But I never really didn’t know much about, if you will, the non-reptile aspect of zoos. And so I quickly learned. I did what I then had all my keepers do. I, with this head keeper’s permission, I didn’t need his permission, but his coordination, concurrence, I guess.
