Brendan Fong's 5th Reflection

Today we got to do some pre-interviews with Moe Flannery, the collections manager, and Jack Dumbacher, the curator of Ornithology and Mammalogy or O and M. One thing story I heard during the interviews was how Jack Dumbacher, the curator of O and M, started working at the academy. He used to work at the Smithsonian, but a job was offered to him here and he took it. His boss was also offered the job but he turned it down. One other science fact I learned is that sometimes when they only want part of the bones cleaned they put the bones with the beetles for only part of the time because the beetles eat different parts of the flesh first. I also learned that the skeletons are dried before they are given to the beetles.