Dr. Mike Murray is that “boy,” some forty years later—a man utterly content with his job. Murray is the main medical man at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, tending to shorebirds, reptiles, sea otters, and other wild local critters. In addition, he maintains a private practice specializing in exotics, with boa constrictors and macaws and about-to-hibernate tortoises as his typical patients.