Amazing Frank! You "made up" what was already published years before...wow impressive.
Look, it's great that you applied the knowledge and certainly not EVERYBODY was using progressive husbandry, but to say you came up with these ideas when they were published and discussed long before 1965, is foolish to the extreme.
I double dog dare anyone who questions this to read Hedigers groundbreaking work: An outline of the psychology of animals in captivity, written in 1950 published first in German in the early '50's English in 1962.
Look into what Hediger suggested to Ditmars when he saw that famous pic of Ditmars force feeding a retic.....anyone ...anyone?

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