I was treated marvelously by the older colleagues and sometimes very instructively. William Bridges, the famous curator publications at the New York Zoological Society as the Wildlife Conservation Society was called in those days, was one of the first people to see me. And he came in, shook my hand and said that, “Curators the New York at Zoological Society are expected to write regularly for Animal Kingdom Magazine. I will accept an article from you every two months.” I was given to understand that this privilege was free, that you would not be paid. And that indeed was the case. So I swallowed and learned more about writing from the wonderful William Bridges in the next couple of years than I had in the previous 20. And that was the way things went to New York. Each of the people there had wonderful skills.
