And the parakeet was because of women’s fashion. At the turn of the century or before the turn of the century, it was very popular for women to wear feathers in their hats, the millinery industry and the birds were killed off and also for the pet industry even even way back when. There’s some way that we had to do something to commemorate those species, and it came to me very sharply when we had a very famous zoo man visit our zoo, Heini Hediger who wrote two zoo man’s Bibles, I think the two Bibles, “Wild Animals in Captivity” and “The Psychology of Animals in Zoos and Circuses.” And I was very proud to have Heini in our zoo, and he came there to see some plaque or some monument of the passenger pigeon. Embarrassingly, there was nothing, not even a mention of the bird, one of the most important zoological occurrences that occurred in our country. So we had an opportunity. We’re developing a new gorilla display, and it was a series of old aviary buildings. We use them later as monkey exhibits that we’re gonna have to raise, and a gentlemen artist in my community, a gentleman by the name of John Ruthven, and he and I decided that Martha had lived in one of those buildings, Martha and the parakeet. So we decided to save one of those buildings.
