Oh, and one of my first duties at the zoo, when I came in on as general curator, Bill Hoff, he hadn’t introduced me to the group yet, and he said Ed, Ralph Corbett will give us $5,000 if we can walk a cheetah across the stage in the opera Aida, you know, where they had the grand procession. So he gave me a cheetah to break. So I would work in the evening with the animal and lo and behold, the animal escapes. And I saw this budding young career just go right down the tube. And all I saw was a cat racing across the zoo, and it was in the evening, the was zoo was empty and I’m racing after it, I could visualize the animal running out on the street. “New Employee Lets Wild Cat Loose in the City.” So my heart’s pounding, and I just, at that time, we had railing around the reptile house and I ran up over the hill, and there’s the cheetah sitting there with the chain wrapped around the thing. So I didn’t tell that story till many years later. Now, hey.
