San Antonio at one time was the only zoo in the world that had a whooping crane. And when I came, Fred had already had a pair of them, Fred Stark, and not only had the pair, but because one of them couldn’t fly, that’s why we got it. He had them in an enclosure, right on the waterway, through the center of the zoo where they could feed on live small fish in the water, just like they would if they were at Port Aransas. But he had that pair breed and produce eggs. And he hatch those eggs and he had the first whooping crane ever hatched in a zoo. And from that time on, we had whooping cranes and still do in the San Antonio Zoo, but other zoos have them too. But the San Antonio Zoo has produced probably I’m guessing at this, but I would say it’s true that there have been more eggs laid from, fertile eggs laid San Antonio’s birds than any other birds, even in Patuxent and more success in, but for some reason, for a while, during my tenure, they didn’t think the San Antonio Zoo was really where they ought to hatch those eggs. So we had to send them to the conservation area back east so they could hatch them.
