I really began, my career has almost been a inherited interest in any aspect of natural history. My aunt related a story to me about taking me to the Brookfield Zoo when I was seven years old and she couldn’t get me out of the place. And I remember later on, in later life, I would cut school, get on the old 22nd Street street car, It had a pot belly stove, I’d go out to the zoo, sneak underneath the Salt Creek fence and prowl around and follow the curators around all day, Carl Platt, the then director, Robert Bean and Robertson Edegar. And I haunted that place. And being a child in Chicago, when you have an interest in natural history and in wilderness places and the animals that occupy them, pretty hard place living in a large city, but fortunately Chicago, we had some great outlets. Two very fine zoos, a fine natural history museum and a major aquarium, so I essentially haunted all those areas in my growing up period.
