Well, let’s just take the South American canids, the bush dogs, the maned wolf and the crab eating fox. Those were these three species that Devra had worked on in, in London when she did her PhD with Desmond Morris. And so she wanted to continue that work. And the way that we differed from other zoos is that the Smithsonian had a number of competitive grant funds. They were allocated to each of the bureaus. And so the National Zoo would get a chunk of money and which it could disperse to various curators or scientists on the staff to use for special projects. And Devra wanted to do a study of comparative study on those three species because they were a study in contrast, the bush dog with little short legs, the maned wolf with the big long legs and the crab eating fox kind of in between. So it was kind of a, a spectrum of adaptation within the South American Canidae that she wanted to investigate through graduate students.
