Well there, initially it was to do library research on surveys of the marine mammals, primarily at this time the beluga whales and a white sided dolphins, because part of the permit application had you define the size of the population from which you hoped to take the animals. So if the population in the wild was 10 animals, you’re not gonna be able to go in there and take eight animals off the coast of California. There’s two intermingling populations of white sided dolphins. And I think the numbers back then were in the tens of thousands. So our taking eight animals could have happened if they died that there’s natural attrition. So, you know, basically producing those numbers, obviously showing your sources and, you know, writing the permit became familiar with USDA regulations as far as defining the size of the exhibits because when it came to brass tacks with creating the exhibit shapes and everything, I’d be the one to say, okay, you know, we need to make this exhibit this deep. For this animal group. We had put in the, they call it an MHD minimum horizontal dimension, which was simply the diameter of a circle.
