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When I was a little kid, my parents took me to the Bronx Zoo in the 60s. The Bronx Zoo is on the outskirts of New York City. And back then, they just kept the animals in cages. And I'll tell you, even when I was a little kid, I didn't like that. I could just tell that wasn't right. And even the monkey house, people, you could walk right up, not close enough to those things that would rip your arms right off, but people were getting, within about six feet of them, they're throwing them the cigarettes. And the monkeys, they were fighting over the cigarettes, and they smoked the cigarettes just like people. The monkeys were actually hooked on nicotine. I couldn't believe it, you know, because everyone's throwing them the cigarettes all day long, and the monkeys are sitting there smoking them. The way those zoos were run were really bad back in that era. And now they're pretty nice. We have one here outside in Quebec by the Granby Zoo. It's more like a safari. They don't keep the animals like cages like that.