So there was, you know, necropsies performed on animals trying to identify a bacterium or a parasite so he could treat those animals from that same tank that were still alive. The challenges came probably toward mid to late eighties, and that’s when we got into the marine mammal field. And I was named acting curator of Fish of marine mammals for about a year. And then Bill Breaker, the director at the aquarium at that time, called me into his office and sat me down. And boy, just never knew what was coming from him and says, Jim, you’re now, we’re a curator of marine mammals. It’s official. And so what that meant was a lot of research in preparing the animal, collecting permits that would go to US Fish and Wildlife or the National Marine Fishery Service at the time, but also identifying sources that could help us collect the animals. And then that was, that was met, there are people in the field that had done this for other parks, but also, again, the animal activism part. That was something that was pretty new to me.
