The first major exhibit that I was able to do at the Bronx Zoo was a remodelment of the 1899 aquatic bird house, which was one of the zoos first two buildings. And, by getting support from the city and earning support in the zoos guest services program, I was able to put enough cash together to pay for a remodelment that brought in a number of new ideas. It was one of the first exhibits to have a series of avian habitats with no fronts on the exhibits. The visitor and the birds are not separated. Now this is common nowadays, but in 1964, it was not. And to have more than one in a single building and in that building, there are four, it was quite unusual. And the habitats given the spaces we had, took some major steps forward in their presentations, conveying a cypress swamp with real cypress, huge logs we brought in from a cutter’s operation we (indistinct) and put in place.
