Because of our trips to Africa, especially to Africa, my first effort, and because I was talking with those slides that I did in Africa to get funding and support from various organizations, I thought the first thing should be an African plains exhibit, but I didn’t just want an African plains exhibit for antelopes, storks and things of that sort, I wanted to go beyond that. So I chose a section of the zoo that was undeveloped. It was nothing but rock and cactus and rattlesnakes. And I took a fellow who owned a steel company in town. I took him up there and we walked through this maze of cactus and rocks. And I walked him through a little pathway I had developed in this area. We ended up and he said, “Yeah, that’s a nice looking area up there. Well, why did we do that?” And I said, “I wanted to show you what Africa is going to be, where it’s going to be, and I need your help.” I said, “We’re gonna build an exhibit that the people walk through.
