I was like, whoa. That’s what I learned about care and taking care of that animal and how to feed it and everything beyond that. Way back before my time, we actually had a tursi ops, a bottle mills dolphin at the end of gallery one, which in retrospect was way too small in exhibit space. We also had a manatee at one time, which was way too small back in those days. It was more, let’s show the curious kind of a Barnum and Bailey attitude and you know, as long as the animal has enough water to float in and he’s eating, it’s gonna be fine.
