If you can keep animals active, obviously they’re better exhibits and are better information for the public. So I went back home and, little by little, I began to experiment. We kept small groups behind the reptile house. We kept small groups of insects and local insects because there were very strict US Department of Agriculture regulations against the importation of exotics, and you can understand why. We have a multi-million dollar agricultural industry that we had to be concerned about, and we well understood that. But eventually we got a little more confident and I kept meeting with agriculture and fish, inviting them in every step of the way of what we were doing, and I think this was very important to educate them and make them feel comfortable at what we were doing. And they were talking about exotics escaping, and we always continued to point out that was never from a zoo. Zoos have not been responsible for the introduction of exotics.
